I'm curious about "overload" at the WaPo and NYT. Most certainly there is an abundance of Bush Administration issues lying around waiting for attention...this US Attorney thread just one of the pieces waiting to be picked up. So is it that there are so many opportunities that in a target rich environment the reporter/hunters simply go into overload and do nothing? Or, always the contrarian, is it that these grey ladies wait until something or someone else percs the story to the top before they feign interest.

The House and Senate can fire off subpoenas and, frankly, they "can't hardly miss". It would appear that if the editors sent out reporters to actually do some digging - or at the very least a little raking - that all manner of things would pop up.

It is interesting that the RNC hits the delete key after 30 days. What business do you know that does that? It flies in the face of logic that email can be wiped clean. Where oh where do we look for reporters who will look.

It is really whirling full tilt today. There is Mike Barnacle on MSNBC tossing one "larger picture about race" brick after another...as if Imus uncovered an inconvenient truth in his 3 little words. Barnacle, who frequents Imus (does he hold his nose every time or just now) and of course when Barnacle had his little brush with plagiarism in 1998 it was Imus who simple got his career back...now there is gratitude for ya'!!

Howard Fineman, another fair weather friend, stopped just short of calling this the worst thing he has ever heard uttered in polite or otherwise society....and Rev. Al and Rev. Jesse....ohohoh...giving those poor girls at Rutgers the wisdowm of the oppressed..

Yet I notice Southpark, BET, VH1, MTV are still going strong, Rush is still lying a mile a minute, a fair number of felons still stalk the airwaves and we have a lying oaf (oafs) occupying the executive.

It was meant to be funny. It wasn't funny. It was, in a word, awful. He apologized. If you don't buy the apology don't listen. But in a sea of floating crap that represents cable/broadcast/radio commentary and opinion, as Ferris Buellar may have said, "I want the choice to listen to a piece of crap and don't want you telling me which one".

Did Mr. McCain discover that first glimmer of progress down the street from the rug market? Was it shinning bright from the crater left by the prior suicide bomb? Maybe it glimmered the next day when the market was attacked yet again.

perhaps it reflected off the 100 soldiers who were guarding him. no? then off the helicopters overhead...can you imagine the air traffic nightmare if all VIPs who wonder out of the green zone....wait....ohhh they don't leave the greenzone...this was in the greenzone? ditit ditit ditit...breaking news from Iraq...McCain left his flight suit and his Mission Accomplished sign in the bunker...

film at 11.

Talk about flying under the radar. Someone has to find Rumsfeld to ask him don't you think?

Conason is obviously an ass. So let's move past that.

Let's talk logic. The logic of the remote clicker. The logic of the on-off button on the car radio. The logic of American Idol. The logic of the MTV awards and the bi-sexual kiss. What other logic do you need to see.

Clean up the airwaves. Oh right. Until sweeps week. Then we can all get a nice big dose of T&A. Feel better? How about some Southpark to ease us into late night.

Can you integrate your thoughts into Rush and Sean and Savage and OReilly....? how does that work for you? Or do we have selective moral outrage because you weren't the chosen Imus contributor...having been passed over for Howard Kurtz?

It is good in one sense that we know the Rutger's coach expressed her main concern as "effect on recruiting season". Nice. Or Fineman and Barnacle (of plagiarism fame) holding their nose but going on anyway. Lovely.

And what can we say about Revs Jesse and Al? Blowhards? Opportunists? Swine?

"right thing to uphold decency". MY ASS.

Please write more and more often. I've treasured your books - have all of them signed by you at a book signing or whatnot - and until my father's death and perhaps now, you were and are his favorite read.

I wonder what the elder Bush's favorite read is now. Does he just abandon all hope or skim the papers, finding an exit to Section B Page 29 to escape his offspring's latest utterings and mutterings.

Please write more so we can hear just plain ordinary people say good and great things on purpose or accidentally instead of what passes for discourse now - something like a Mel Brooks at the campfire slice of thought. I really can't stand the half sentences any longer. This fractured English, the half thoughts, the consistently inconsistent ideas.

See you at 6p.

Anything that prompts youngsters and oldsters to read, go to bookstores, glory in the feel of the printed page rather than navigating a screen...more's the glory.

Potter is not easy. It isn't the Hobbit but it isn't easy and for a 12 y.o. to swoon and for families to huddle around a tv on a saturday night and wonder at the fine lessons when book meets screenplay...well now.

And the joy here is that we know this last book will be a movie straightaway and yet we buy the book to read it first!

Now, dear reader, how exactly does that compare to the Sopranos?

whenever i see him, he has this smug entitled "smarter than thou" look about him. first Iraq and now this and from what I can see, very little else of importance inbetween.

wouldn't you just love to grab him by the tie and just slap the ever lovin' shit right out of him?