Jane Hamsher has done a nice job running down the potential trouble for Cheney on FireDogLake. Check out her notes from today at firedoglake.blogspot.com.

Over at Huffington Post, they note that the indictments may already be complete, but that Fitzgerald is asking for an extension anyway to give himself time to revise or add to the indictments if he can get the indicted to turn on each other or seek plea agreements. Read the relevant post here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-odonnell/grand-jury-math-wapo_b_9568.html

It's really disappointing to see King, of all columnists, fall into a lazy, overused (and untrue) argument about Dirk Nowitzki. Dirk clearly has many holes in his game, but "softness" isn't one of them.

This is a player who had several teeth knocked out during the first half of a playoff game several years ago, then came back in the second half and was fantastic.

This is a player who Don Nelson refused to let play in a crucial game seven a few years ago after a serious back injury. Dirk kept insisting he was ready to go and Nelson didn't believe it and didn't want to allow Dirk to ruin the rest of his career.

This is a "jump-shooting" forward who BECAME a 10-a-night rebounder in the NBA (he wasn't in Europe).

There may be a "mental softness" to Dirk's game. He does seem to have a capacity for making mistakes at crucial moments. But to label him "soft" implies that he can't take the rigors of the game, physically. I think there's no question he can, and is more than willing to fight through whatever physical pain he may be experiencing to get on the court and play.

C'mon, King. I love you. You can do better.

Dallas DOES tend to have largely clueless sports fans, but there may be a defense here. You may not have heard the fans because TNT's fan audio was weird all night.

A couple of times along the way (at the start of the third period, coming back from timeouts late in the halves), I noticed that the audio from the TNT broadcast included very little crowd noise, despite the apparent mayhem (flashing lights, people dancing, arena displays going crazy, etc.) in the arena. At the start of the third period, it sounded like Stockton and Miller were there by themselves, even though the wide shots of players walking onto the floor clearly showed the fans totally ramped up. After a few seconds, the crowd noise cut on, but it was uneven for the next 30 seconds or so.

Throughout the rest of the game, I'd periodically notice that the crowd noise was turned WAY down at times when shots of the crowd showed them going wild. Having been at AAC for several playoff victories that weren't nearly as entertaining as this one, I can't imagine that the place wasn't roaring pretty much throughout the entire overtime.

I'm guessing King is reacting to TNT's audio problems, not Dallas' fans. But as I said at the beginning, maybe not.

I've already taken you to task for calling Dirk "soft," but I think we're all witnessing Dirk finally growing into a great player. He's had the potential this whole time, but he's often been too willing to let someone else bail him out at key moments: a teammate, the refs, SOMEONE.

But game six and seven were Dirk, just deciding to do it himself. He made a bonehead play at the end of game six, sure. But the only reason the team was in position for Dirk to make a bad play for the tie was because he'd made one great play after another all night. 25 points, 21 rebounds, and 5 assists. He was awesome. I was in the building, and it was breathtaking.

Last night was better, because the whole world was looking as Dirk did what we in Dallas have been seeing all season: a more responsible, more inspired Dirk. Let's hope he's here for a long time.

Finally, King, I couldn't agree with you more on the scoring box. Why does ONLY TNT have this problem? Every other network is able to do it pretty quickly. I think it might be because TNT really likes that little "explosion" or "burst" graphic that comes up each time the score changes, but who cares? Keep the score correct--it's much more compelling than your little special effect.

Working through this frame by frame to find the right words. For the record, tigerjade is correct.

Who knows what it's supposed to mean. I used to work as a writer in the marketing department for Radio Shack, and had to occasionally rewrite instructions for tape players and alarm clocks that had been written in "English" in Japan. It was always a fun game, trying to figure out what was meant, versus what was written.

I think "The Evolution of Dance" is so popular precisely BECAUSE they guy is such a mediocre dancer. But he throws himself into it with such an abandon that it's somehow astonishing to watch. I mean, where'd he come up with that "Brady Bunch" song?

Watching him do it on "Today" was weird because of the way they had him playing for the camera, with the crowd and hosts behind him. Had they turned it around and had him facing the crowd, I think it would have been much more entertaining.

Or maybe I'm nuts.