Monday Musings -- From Elian To Harriet

While it's an interesting exercise to try and make a psychological diagnosis of an 11-year old boy speaking Spanish (try to top that, Dr. Frist), it didn't stop a bunch of bloggers from trying in the wake of yesterday's "60 Minutes" interview with Elian Gonzalez. You're free to assign whatever motives you want to Gonzalez or "60 Minutes" correspondent Bob Simon. But you can't really say the interview isn't newsworthy.

MSNBC's David Shuster has some tough words to level at former employer Fox News (Tip: Romenesko).

You know the White House is getting nervous about conservative support when Vice President Cheney shows up on Rush. They may have reason for more jitters after Limbaugh asked questions like this: "The question is: Why do we need to wait ten years? There are people that he could have nominated that we would know about now. Is there is a desire in this White House because of current poll numbers or this Katrina response that just doesn't want the fight with the Senate Democrats at this time?" (Transcript).

Did anyone really "break" the Harriet Miers news today? Does anyone really care who breaks what is essentially a press release?

Blogger (and frequent PE commenter) Ron Mwangaguhunga (humorously) deconstructs Miers' beauty secrets.