I think that First Lady should be an elected position. Let's give the Rose Garden tending, White House interior decorating, and ribbon cutting to someone who wants the job.

Also, it gets rid of the awkward question of what to call Bill Clinton if Hillary gets elected.

Plus, for male candidates, voters could make their protest vote count by, for example, naming Courtney Love as First Lady if Mitt Romney gets elected, or saddling the next Bill Clinton-type with Rosie O'Donnell.

When it comes to actually wanting smaller government, Ron Paul actually makes Reagan look like the guy in the Reagan mask.

If Paul's ideas about eliminating government regulatory agencies would hand over so much power to large corporations, then his campaign war chest would dwarf Hillary's and Obama's several times over.

The dirty secret about government regulations is that many of them are written to benefit large corporations and create a barrier to entry in the market. If many of the agencies in place now were replaced by truly independent private organizations like Consumers Union and Underwriters' Laboratories, many corporations would have no reason to donate to political campaigns at all.

The problem with people bashing the libertarian idea of a free market in favor of centralized government planning and organization is that the market system we have isn't really free as they think it is. The health-care industry and aviation are prime examples -- the expensive pricing and corporate abuses are intertwined with government oversight that at worst doesn't oversee at all and at best creates a load of inefficiencies that are passed on to the consumer and stifle competition and innovation.

Follow the campaign money if you want to see whose handing our government over to corporations.

On the surface, Sgt. Pepper was groundbreaking in the way it married the sounds of psychedelica with so many types of old-school theatrics. "Mr. Kite," with its carnival sounds, the orchestral touches throughout, the gentle music hall lilt of "When I'm 64," the symphonic reach of "Day in the Life", and the simulated concert of the title track and reprise -- the entire album opened up the allowable palette for this kind of music.

Underneath, however, the songs told a story of a struggle between suburban middle class life and self-exploration through drugs and art. "When I'm 64" was a fearful picture about a lonely old age: "yours sincerely, wasting away...". "Good Morning," "Fixing a hole", "Getting Better" were all about a dissatisfying, unfulfilling way of life in the suburbs.

On the other side of the struggle are the 'tangerine trees and marmalade skies" of escape, whether the physical escape of "She's Leaving Home," or inner escape through drugs ("Lucy"), meditation ("Within You and Without You,") or entertainment ("Mr. Kite.")

However, the reprise of Sgt. Pepper gets to the bottom of this world, like his disaffected audience, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely..." The Beatles' retreat from touring to the studio opened them up creatively, but their increasing fame, travel, and experimentation with spirituality and drugs took them forever away from their audience. "She's leaving home" on the surface sounds like a song of liberation, but one with a heavy price: "meeting a man from the motor trade." Escape comes with a price.

And the album's ending is devastating -- A Day in the Life shows the casualties of those who don't escape, but can't return, who lose the struggle to find themselves ( "He blew his mind out in a car") or ignore it altogether and resign themselves to an empty life ("Now we know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall").

While the Sixties bloomed that summer of '67, Sgt. Pepper bringing to the masses sounds that had before been marginalized to London and San Francisco, the Beatles had already ridden that wave and were on their way to their inevitable dissolution. In many ways, Day In the Life predicted the crash of the psychedelic culture at Altamont.

If you can find a copy of the long-out-of-print book "The Age of Rock," edited by Jonathan Eisen, you can find some of the best rock critics of the era weighing in on the album. Even then, there were people who saw this record in a historical context. Sadly, 40 years later, what passes for music criticism at Salon hasn't "made the grade."

The fact that 22 pages of comments are already up for an article published over the weekend on Salon indicates that just about everyone reading Salon gets the album better than Gina Arnold.

mattwa33186 has claimed twice that the iPhone doesn't use the AT&T EDGE network.

That's incorrect, the phone does use EDGE, which is faster than GPRS, but at 250 Mbit/sec, it's far from 'crazy fast'. Even Jobs admits that EDGE is fine for email and text but not the greatest experience for web browsing.

AT&T does support HSDPA, which is a 3G technology, in some US cities, but it's not widely available. EDGE, however, is available over most of their service area. HSDPA is available in 165 cities (mostly on east coast), while EDGE is available in 13,000 cities across the country.

Given the limited space inside the phone and the need for battery life, eschewing 3G makes sense until more than a few people can actually use it.