Odds and Ends

Glenn Reynolds column in Tech Central Station. "Media Meltdown?"
Read it all. It's good.

The "Black Widows" the group the media give credit to in a bid to make pseudo-heroines for the downing of two Russian planes? They weren't widows. And there weren't two of them. There are four, all are either divorced or single. Russia is still looking for the other two. UPDATE: They may have found one. Female suicide bomber outside of a busy Russian subway kills 8. Female terrorists are not new. They are well documented. Many of the most vicious East European terrorists during the 1980s were women. All terrorists groups have ties to states that sponsor them, allow them refuge, and provide them with incentives to kill. The war on terror isn't a war against a tactic. It's a war against state-sponsored terrorism against civilians. Human weapons of mass destruction.

MICHAEL MOORE Instapundit links to it as "THIS has got to be an embarrassment." It is. It's USAToday sinking to the low of having Michael Moore reporting from the Republican National Convention. Judge the content. After his reception, he won't be returning, according to Editor & Publisher.

OVERNIGHTS for 1st night of Republican Convention. From DrudgeReport.
FLASH: FOXNEWS PULLS 3,868,000 VIEWERS BETWEEN 8-11:30 PM ET MONDAY [VIEWERSHIP HITS 4,616,000 DURING RUDY SPEECH]; CNN AT 1,262,000 VIEWERS; MSNBC SCORES 854,000...