11:30 AM -- When does incarceration become protective custody? Editor & Publisher reports the following disturbing news:

Judith Miller, in just her first hours in jail after refusing to "sing" for the special prosecutor, has already bonded with one of her guards at the Alexandria (Va.) Dentention [sic] Center over a certain aging crooner.

"There is a fellow Neil Diamond fan who is a corrections officer," she told fellow New York Times reporter Lorne Manly. "We've already had a serious discussion" about a concert she will have to miss.

Sweet Caroline! Throw away the key!

— Larry, Attack Monkey, Light Reading