2:49 p.m. Unusual twist on the live-blogging effort: It has been well over ten minutes now, and I still cannot get MSNBC to come back on. The other channels and networks are still with me--everything from Ellen DeGeneres to CNN--but MSNBC is black.

Solid black.

Nothing.

Turning to a different medium, we do still have P. M. Carpenter's very worthwhile piece on www.buzzflash.com today. The title is "Hillary Clinton's Monstrously Blind Demolition." Good work.

Buzzflash got cited in the congressional testimony of D.C. attorney Barry Coburn, last week, at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the use of Special Counsel. Three of four witnesses testified in favor of having Special Counsel, for those cases where the DOJ--for example--should not be investigating itself.