From the NYT:

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A what-if scenario about some tasty extras for the Borat DVD whenever it comes out (just in time for Christmas? Dare we dream?!?!)

Ahmed Rashid, one of Pakistan's foremost journalists, explained why Pashtuns are P.O.ed with the negative image that has been painted on them.

AP via Yahoo! News:

Three Danish journalists who published classified intelligence reports on Iraq's former weapons program were acquitted Monday on charges of endangering national security.

The Copenhagen City Court ruled that Niels Lunde, chief editor of the Berlingske Tidende newspaper, and reporters Michael Bjerre and Jesper Larsen acted in the public interest when they published a series of articles in 2004 citing leaked Danish intelligence reports.

The articles said there was no evidence Iraq had weapons of mass destruction at the time of the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, one of the key reasons cited by the U.S. and Britain for going to war.

A former intelligence officer previously has been sentenced to four months in prison for leaking the documents in the case, which was viewed in Denmark as a landmark test of media freedom. ...

Judge Peter Lind Larsen said the "considerable public interest" in the information outweighed the government's concerns that its intelligence-gathering operations were jeopardized.

Here's a link to the BBC story too.

A salmon trying to make it up the Moricetown rapids (some call them falls) on the Bulkley River at Moricetown, B.C. There's an old t-shirt that has the saying "spawn or die" on it. That pretty much sums it up.

The NYT's David Carr recalls how earlier in his career, he told the aggrieved subject of one story, "is it worse that I said it, or worse that it’s true?" And so it goes with calling the Iraq situation a civil war.