Stephen Colbert's Daily Show spinoff, the Colbert Report, launched Monday. Here's a few reviews I was able to find:

After eight years as host of CBC Radio's iconic As It Happens, Mary Lou Findlay wants to retire and move on to other projects.

Democracy Now! ran some excerpts from the documentary Hotel Palestine: Killing the Witness, produced by the Spanish TV network Telecino. It contains interviews with two of the wanted soldiers.

Saturday Night, the venerable Canadian magazine, has been shut down by St. Joseph's Media, the current proprietor.

Rory Carroll, the Baghdad correspondent for the Guardian, has reportedly been freed and is unharmed.

Here's a link to the Guardian's coverage.

The writer gets a courage award from PEN tonight, much to the annoyance of the Globe and Mail's editorial board and pretty much anyone else with a pro-American bent.

Bunny Greenhouse made $137K US/yr working as a procurement bureaucrat for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. But her work habits apparently went to shit not long after she started asking questions about fat contracts for Halliburton in the run-up to the Iraq war, and she was demoted.

Judith Miller plans on taking a leave of absence from the NYT, and many are betting she won't ever return. The Village Voice's Jason Vest comes up with the next 10 possible rungs on her career ladder.

Sydney Schanberg, a former NYT foreign correspondent and now the media columnist for the Village Voice, adds his voice to the Judith Miller imbroglio.

It's not the best of times for top U.S. Republicans.