Yes, the Jill Carroll thing is getting a tad irritating. She’s just been released, she should take it easy, reunite with family and friends, and doesn’t owe us (you, me) anything. One imagines though we’ll be hearing her whole story soon though. But in the meantime, does the Christian Science Monitor have to take up her whole I-was-treated-fine/it-was-all-good talk, as they seem to in their main story today, without mentioning a January 30th video release where she was crying–presumably not fine.

Hey, maybe despite being hostage takers, they’re salt of the earth (save for the dead translator..). But, while understandable and rightly happy she’s free, the paper could be a little more realistic.