Mumbai media bonehead alert

We thought we were safe, and then CNN stepped in

CNN broadcast the couple's location, and the gunmen took the elevator down to their floor. Nice...

In another burst of media brilliancy, as the Indian commandos were being lowered from helicopters to the roof of the Chabad house, tiptoeing, and communicating via hand-signals, Indian TV broadcast the whole thing live. As the pundit who reported it commented, perhaps the Indian media thinks that terrorists only watch the cartoon channel?

20,000 troops for domestic duty / national security

I don't know how I feel about this.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/30/AR2008113002217_pf.html

But I suspect that when the ACLU and the Cato Institute are united in their concern about something, we should all be a little worried. I'd be a lot happier, I think, if they were equipping the National Guard.

On the other hand, recruiting the troops returning from Iraq into the Reserves would probably be a really really good idea. I suspect that's a cadre of fighters the bad guys would rather not encounter.

(Unrelated update: I rode about 7 miles today)