Over at the Washington Post, Eugene Robinson has written a column entitled "Damsels in Distress," and that Natalee Holloway is the latest woman to join this group.

Michelle Malkin writes "I'm very sorry for the Holloway family, but no more so than I am for the families of several missing children--of all races and backgrounds--in my own backyard."

La Shawn Barber weighs in also, as well as Jackson's Junction.

You can barely tune into Fox News for five minutes without hearing the latest update or twist to this story. Some of that comes from the lack of explosive, hard news going on right now. There's just not a lot out there for the 24-hour cable television networks to fix themselves on, and they are sitting around waiting for the Jackson verdict, so you are going to get wall-to-wall coverage of stories like this.

But one suspects that even if there were other serious, immediate stories for the cable networks to cover, they would still be obsessing about the disappearance of this girl. Perhaps it is because she looks like the girl next door who everybody knows, and as Bill O'Reilly indicated on his show the other night, if it can happen to her "it can happen to anyone."