•DONALD RUMSFELD, facing the Senate Armed Services Committee, claims that "you'd have a dickens of a time trying to find instances where I've been excessively optimistic" about the Iraq war. Dickens is apparently Rummy-ese for "shockingly easy."
•Controversy erupts in the hotly contested Connecticut Senate primary after a free-lance blogstress posts an image of JOSEPH LIEBERMAN as Bill Clinton's "Little Black Sambo." Challenger Ned Lamont claims to not know nothin' about no bloggers. It's a comment on how badly the race has gone for Lieberman that his team seems to count the incident as a "win."
•White House spokesman Tony Snow...