CNN tells me US Military spokesman Major General William B. Caldwell says that the US military policy in Iraq "has failed." I've tried ceaselessly to find an exact quote for that but all I got was the "disheartening" quote - quite the understatement, no?

In other news,

Diebold Machines easily hackable. Uh-huh, yeah.

A recent study by Princeton University that claims the panel door protecting the memory card on Diebold's AccuVote-TS voting machine can be opened with a hotel mini-bar key has triggered howls of outrage all over the blogosphere.

Blogosphere? I saw a dude demonstrate it live and direct on CNN TV. What gives?