Meanwhile, in more substantive news….yesterday I linked to Declan McCullagh’s CNET interview with FEC commissioner Bradley Smith. Today, former editor of Insight Magazine and Washington Times reporter Paul Rodriguez interviews Smith on Rightalk Radio. Full disclosure:  My affiliation with Rightalk radio is strictly platonic. **** update:  Kossacks call for attacks on controversial HARD-RIGHT IDEOLOGUE Alan Greenspan; Americablog’s John Aravosis, fresh off his Jeff Gannon outing, said to be scouring the

Hey!  This ain’t Penthouse Forum, people.  I mean, I’m an artist, for chrissakes…

The Jawa report is your one-stop link dump for news and commentary on Giuliana Sgrena, the anti-American Italian reporter taken hostage(?) in February and released today by her Iraqi captors, the little-known Islamic Jihad Organisation. *** update: Breaking:  U.S. Fires on Freed Journalist

From the BBC: Russian prosecutors say they have arrested four people in connection with the school siege in Beslan last year, which left more than 330 people dead. Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Shepel said the four were suspected of helping plan the siege in North Ossetia and other attacks in Ingushetia. He said five other suspects were killed as they resisted arrest. A BBC regional analyst says the Russian authorities

for Martha Stewart And I have known the eyes already, known them all— The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase, And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin, When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall, Then how should I begin To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?       And how should I presume? **** The Almost-Complete Martha Chronicles