Cursor's Media Patrol - 01/16/06

10,000 chant "Death to America" in Karachi to protest a "precise attack" in northern Pakistan, as Sen. John McCain offers apologies, while a Democratic colleague tells CNN's Wolf Blitzer that "it's a regrettable situation, but what else are we supposed to do?"

Two Reuters journalists, who had been held for several months without charge, were among 509 Iraqi detainees freed from three prisons in Iraq, after all were "cleared of terror-related charges."

'Bush Has Crossed the Rubicon,' writes Paul Craig Roberts, and "in effect ... is vetoing the bills he signs into law" by "asserting the powers that accrued to Hitler in 1933." And Leon Hadar warns that 'The Age Of W Is Not Over,' while Al Gore calls for appointment of a special counsel.

NSA whistleblower Russell Tice calls for "some adult supervision of these programs," offers up a theory as to why the FISA court was bypassed, and says that in "State of War," James Risen "has come across, and basically reported, a crime." Risen also tells the story of 'The yes man and the thug.'

Reviewing "Women Who Make the World Worse," Ana Marie Cox concludes that without feminism, "Kate O'Beirne would have been unlikely to have this book published -- and most women would not have their own money to waste on it."

Warning that 'The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years,' the "sweet old man" who originally propounded the Gaia hypothesis, now says that 'We are past the point of no return.' Plus: 'The boiling point.'