The fine folks over at ProPublica know the importance of a good, balanced breakfast. That’s why they decided to serve a meal to the journalists camped outside former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn‘s temporary residence – which, as luck would have it, happens to be just across the street from ProPublica’s office.

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Ted Olson appeared yesterday on Fox News Sunday to discuss this week’s landmark gay marriage ruling overturning Prop 8 in California — and it should be required viewing in every law school — and every newsroom — around the country.

The Pentagon Papers Of Our Time. This is the title being given to the new Wikileaks release of more than 90,000 military documents pertaining to the war in Afghanistan. It’s hardly surprising given the parallels often drawn between Afghanistan and Vietnam — but what are the real similarities and differences? James Fallows makes some comparisons in The Atlantic.

While the freedom of the press guaranteed by the First Amendment has never been successfully challenged politically, it is now being challenged economically: as a practical matter, the press is not so free. So, how to pay for the vital probings on behalf of the entire polity, in this time of forced deprivation?