Biscuit Variety Pack

Colbert King, in WaPo, has a convoluted op-ed about two reporters who were banned from speaking with state employees after they reported things unfavorable to Maryland's governor.

The New York Times has an editorial on the U.S.'s failed anti-abortion move at a U.N. conference on the rights of women. Glad to see they're finally saying something about it. Their editorial failed to mention the following, reported by Reuters, "Jeers and catcalls greeted the top U.S. delegate to a global women's conference on Friday as she stressed Washington's opposition to abortion and support for sexual abstinence and fidelity." Reuters further notes that such catcalls are "unusual at the world body". The world is developing more and more contempt for America, and who can blame them?

U.S. military shoots at a recently-freed-by-insurgents Italian journalist's car, wounding her and killing her escort, an Italian secret service agent. Atrios says we shouldn't draw any conclusions from this. I find it interesting that he does not state exactly what conclusions we should not draw.

ChoicePoint execs sold lots of their stock before letting the world know much of their data had been stolen. Nice.