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Ten journalists were dragged into court to testify about a leak for which Scooter Libby was not being prosecuted.  Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has a good account.

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Steve Jobs and Apple are in trouble for backdating.  Backdating is a complex financial prodecure requiring Mr. Jobs to call old girlfriends.

According to Holman Jenkins of the Wall Street Journal it is a perfectly legitimate business practice.  A special 2 man committee, including Apple director and Internet inventor, Al Gore, investigated Jobs and cleared him. 

Since executive options come out of the existing shareholders' hide you'd think they'd be pretty steamed about the whole backdating thing. Not. Apple stock rose to record highs.

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I swear, this is my last obit cartoon. 

As usual, Bob Woodward has the final word on President Ford. He says Ford disagreed with the invasion of Iraq.  Stay tuned for follow-up questions.

Woodward is the Barbara Walters of getting the dead to spill. In his book Veil: The Secret wars of the CIA 1981-1987 Woodward's exit interview turned William Casey into Edgar Casey.

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Nancy Pelosi actually said this.  It appeared at the bottom of a story by Faye Fiore on October 21 in the L.A. Times.

Micky Kaus wondered why it's not on A1 of the New York Times if  "the Democrats have given up the special interests" .

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The White House no longer says "stay the course". According to the Guardian they are now the knights who say "change":

"…the president himself hammered a new buzzword: "Change". "We're
constantly changing. The enemy changes, and we change. The enemy adapts
to our strategies and tactics, and we adapt to theirs. We're constantly
changing to defeat this enemy," he said…"

Reuters quotes the president saying he is willing to change "tactics" in Iraq but not strategery, er "strategy".

Rich Lowry of National Review admires Bush's resolve but says he needs to change course.  James Taranto's Best of the Web Today quotes a sergeant in army intelligence, stationed in Iraq, who says we're screwed if we don't change.

Change can be risky for Bush presidents.  Especially if you are a lip reader.

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Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist who wrote about the Dirty War in Chechnya, was assassinated.  She was a constant critic of Vladimir Putin.  She died on his birthday.  Putin is a former head of KGB.

According to USA Today Politkovskaya was working on a story about kidnapping and torture in Chechnya when she was killed.

American reporter, Paul Klebnikov was hit in Moscow in 2004.  The Committee to Protect Journalists says 42 journalists have been murdered in Russia since 1992.

I wanted to work this story it into a cartoon but it lacked gay e-mails so it didn't get much play in the U.S.  The Korean nuke test is big news and Russia is a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council so here it is.