A “peace” protestor chains himself to the headquarters of a local charity, mistaking it for a federal building:
Police officers used heavy-duty bolt cutters to free Mason. “He asked for help because he didn’t have the key,” Olympia police Cmdr. Steve Nelson said… Mason, who identified himself to a photographer, said he had looked up the Department of Energy in the phone book. The phone book, under the Department of Energy, lists a Bonneville Power Administration Office at 924 Capitol Way S.
No, this isn’t from the Onion.
JOHN BURNS ON IRAQ: Here’s the great New York Times’ reporter’s comments on PBS last night:
Iraqis have suffered beyond, I think, the common understanding of the United States from the repression of the past 30 years here. And many, many Iraqis are telling us now, not always in the whispers he have heard in the past but now in quite candid conversations, that they are waiting for America to come and bring them liberty. It’s very hard though for anybody to understand this. It can only be understood in terms of the depth of the repression here. It has to be said that this not universal of course… All I can tell you is that as every reporter who has come over here will attest to this, there is the most extraordinary experience of the last few days has been a sudden breaking of the ice here, with people in every corner of life coming forward to tell us that they understand what America is about in this. They are very, very fearful of course of the bombing, of damage to Iraq’s infrastructure. They are very concerned about the kind of governance, the American military governance, that they will come under afterward. Can I just say that there is also no doubt – no doubt – that there are many, many Iraqis who see what is about to happen here as the moment of liberation.
As Donald Luskin notes, it’s good to see this fine reporter unconstrained by the New York Times’ attempt to spin this war against the United States.
THE TIMES ON ALTERMAN: The Rainesians get the dean of Berkeley Journalism School, a contributor to the Nation, Salon, the New Yorker, and the New York Review of Books, to endorse a book endorsing the notion that there’s no liberal bias in the media. And they don’t even seem to notice the irony.
The Dish 