Thursday, 02/06/03

It took an unconscionably long time for US news sources to pick up the Guardian's coverage of North Korea's cheerful threat to "pre-empt" the US with a first strike while we're all occupied with Iraq. Google News indicates that the first US story on the subject, from the AP, appeared less than ten minutes ago.

Speaking of news pushed off the front page, didja hear the one about John Ashcroft overruling plea agreements struck by US Attorneys? This is the AG insisting on seeking the death penalty, and reneging on deals to provide information or testimony in exchange for life sentences. It's like having Mullah Omar as our chief law-enforcement officer.

There was a time when reading Molly Ivins didn't feel like work. She's as sharp as ever, but she's suffering from a surfeit of material. Salt Lake Tribune links for her recent SEC coverage, or State Of The Union reaction will stick around a little longer than the contents of her Creators Syndicate page. The latter piece in particular, just juxtaposing rhetoric with reality, could have been composed by anyone who gets a newspaper and learned to read before 2001, but somehow she's still the only one writing it down. 12:23PM «

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