If you've read Standingup's diary or TPMMuckraker or any of the other howls of pain on the blue planet, you understand why I'm posting this small bit of info.  The House Judiciary Committee put out a call for whistleblowers and has now managed to blow the whistle on those who responded.  If you've got a whistle to blow or care about someone who does, read on...

Editor & Publisher by way of Raw Story, notes that the intrepid battlefield reporter Geraldo Rivera burst into song today on Fox News after knocking the New York Times for reporting on "negative" things and a shocked Jodi Applegate riffled through the latest edition trying to find something "postive"... and... and... couldn't!

Joined by "Good Day New York" co-host Rick Folbaum, Applegate and Rivera began singing "My Favorite Things."  They locked arms.  They smiled.  They sang on.  On a news channel.  Okay, Fox News Channel, but a NEWS channel.

Ahhh, for the good ol' days at the New York Times when Judy Miller & friends could be counted upon to get those positive stories into print!  Larry Johnson remembers:

Well, HAVE they?  Have I missed the They're Gone diaries?  

I wore all black today.  I sat next to a WAPO Style section with the new Damien and a red arrow-pointed tail on the front page while waiting for a Metro train I didn't need to catch.  

C'mon, Rapture, C'mon.  Take 'em.  TAKE 'em!!!!

But I just went over to Safeway, and they're still here.