The House Judiciary Committee will apparently release the transcript of North Alabama lawyer and GOP whistleblower Jill Simpson's deposition in the investigation of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman on Wednesday, sources say.

Picasso's depiction of Don Quixote

The release was delayed today, since a hearing scheduled before the committee on Thursday on the issue of the political prosecution of Democrats around the country by the Bush Justice Department was delayed due to the funeral of Rep. Jo Ann Davis, R-Va., a spokeswoman for the committee confirmed.

Copies of the transcript were apparently leaked to some news organizations by a staff member for one of the minority, Republican members of the committee, in violation of an agreement with Ms. Simpson and her attorney, which resulted in a misleading blog post today on the Newhouse, Advent Communications Website al.com.

We will have a full story on Ms. Simpson's testimony on Wednesday, along with a link to the entire transcript, after the committee makes its formal announcement.

Also, apparently Time magazine is planning another story about the Siegelman case that may come out on its Website on Wednesday, sources say.

Meanwhile, for some interesting reading, check out Scott Horton's essay today on the Harpers.org Website on Cervantes’s Golden Age. I guess the Cervantes fictional character Don Quixote, the man of la Mancha, was about a little more than a crazy man tilting at windmills after all, eh?

Don’t be consumed in the quest for needful things ... the real quest leads inward. Beware of the vanities of the world, the frivolities of human existence. And remember wherever your life takes you, and whatever love you may seek from time to time, the need for kindness and respect, the essential qualities which make human life worth living. Life will bring pain and hardship, but have the disposition to be modest, to learn, to be kind - and the edge will come off.