Monday, May 11

USA! USA!

It didn't take a team of snipers, but journalist Roxana Saberi is heading home.

Now call me a victim of tribal think, if you must, but news like that cheers me. The Fargo-raised, Medill-trained Saberi had gone on a short-lived hunger strike to protest her sentence for spying.

Maybe those Iranians aren't such irrational players afterall, and indeed can act in their own best interests, as this release for political reasons surely was? Imagine.