The White House spoke up for U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as more retired generals call for Rummy's resignation.

For the record, former FEMA head Michael Brown was told he was "doin' a heckofa job" by Dubya, but Rummy gets a mere "fine."

Whatever could it mean? :)

Not even a cat therapist (?!?!) has been able to lure poor Molly out from in between the walls of a New York delicatessan where she's been residing/trapped for two weeks.

An NYT editorial thinks the marvel of a McDonald's drive-through call centre is that it's not in Bangalore. Way to be on the side of the little people, NYT.

Overheard at the Monarch Tavern:

"Our parents and grandparents sacrificed to come here from Italy and Portugal so we don't have to."

Thank God that sacrifice stuff ended with the last generation, I say! :)

Here's the NYT's list of suggested blogs.

Here's globeandmail.com's.

I like the Globe's list better.

Lower ad revenue and higher newsprint costs -- plus lots o' spending on buyouts -- meant U.S. newspapers in the NYT, Tribune and McLatchy groups generally had a lousy first quarter even though their Internet properties are doing fairly well.