In other news, more than 20 were killed in Baghdad by a suicide bomber. No word if the dead included any white people.
Paul McCartney, fresh from a Live 8 gig, busked for change in the London Tube.
Tom Friedman is an idiot. (Not news, exactly, but Juan Cole does provide a skewer, using identical language to what I just heard the guy I saw yesterday, who was from Al Arabiya rather than Al Jazeera, say on Dateline London today. I think Mr. Suave Announcer Man must read Informed Comment.) (Internal Editor: Does this last bit make any sense?)