First of all, Celine Dion for God's sake. But the choices offered were silly and boring.

TPM shows that this tune was originally written as an Air Canada commercial.

But it's the Soprano thing is the worst. Clintons = Soprano? Who wants that identification? Plus, my literalist reading of the Soprano ending is this: we are in Tony's subjectivity, and the music suddenly stops and we are in blackness. Tony's been shot. He is on the other side. He is searching around in his pocket for money for Charon to cross the River Styx. Oblivion has claimed him. All around him, Carmela is screaming, the patrons are screaming, the killer drops the gun and runs out of the restaurant. Tony doesn't know that, because he is no more.

Now, what's so funny about this cute little film?

Obama had the blunder of the week last week. This might turn out to be Hillary's week.

Simple-minded technophobe snobs.

What's worse, I was reporting on the fisheries. I went to Newfoundland, to talk about the small-boat fishermen who were saying their catches had collapsed. The big offshore trawlers on the Grand Banks were catching very well (what I didn't know: younger and younger fish). So what was the story. I really was as careful as I could be to get the story. At the Fisheries Department, they assured me over and over that the decline in the inshore fishery was temporary, that they had the quotas set correctly. The small boats said it was all crashing down, and the big boats were stripping the ocean bottom clean with their massive nets. I presented both sides, but I believed the scientists at Fisheries.

There was a greenie book at the time that said it was all collapsing, that we had to cut back drastically, and God forgive me, I thought he was alarmist. I left that job, and left the Maritimes. And a year later, I read about the collapse. I had been on one of the biggest stories of the last of the 20th century, and I had missed it. The Fisheries scientists had missed it. Fat lot of good it'll do.

We spend so much time on less important things, like the seal pups, of which there are over 3 million each spring, and not enough on the hard science.

Hope you like that farmed fish.

"I feel exactly the same way about this. It's almost "Exhibit A" in the case for why Hillary can't connect with voters. She just reeks of inauthenticity."

I can't tell you how happy I am that you're making your decisions on who to vote for based on a fraud of a story about Gore -- It was eight years ago, dude, and if you don't know how the press made up the damn story, then there's no hope for your authentic behind -- and on equally insubstantial "feelings" about Hillary. I know what you'll do. You'll decide who among the candidates is "authentic," and then proceed to ignore any signals that they aren't.

And you can no more tell how "authentic" a person is based on a gesture or a song or the repetition of a catch phrase, or the rantings of the media whores. Why not policy positions? You know what they are?

In the first debate of 2000, Gore cleaned Bush's clock. I mean, the Social Security and budget frauds were left on the ground, bleeding. Overnight polls showed that Gore WON, big-time. But the press chose to talk about Gore's hair color. His loud sighs. His "condescension," and so on, and so the perception became that he had lost.

Know why? Because lazy fools try to decide who to vote for based on who's "authentic." You may as well let your decision be made by lottery.

"Would the 'left' blogosphere be against the invasion of Iraq and torture of detainees if Al Gore had done these things instead of George Bush?"

Gore came out against the war, before the invasion. When he was called every kind of crazy by guys just like you, who were parroting the line o' the day.

And no, it's pretty clear that if Gore had urged on the invasion, he wouldn't have a large following today. We don't work like the crazy people on the right who march lockstep with the Noble Leader Except If He's Clinton.

It's evident that the press has turned. Fortune has been on Steve's case for a while, and more and more people, like the ever-stylish Manjoo, are piling on to the Apple bashing.

By the way, do you understand anything about tech? Will you please write something that isn't slavish -- wait a minute, you've returned to the Apple-bashing over and over. Huh.

How about explaining where the Wow! is in Vista? Or how much you need a $10,000 Big Ass Table Computer like Surface?

I always have read Plato's dialogues as that: explorations of the dialectic; a dialogue, after all, which is related to drama, which the Greeks did rather well, and in which each absolutist "position" is an emanation of one character or another. I'm sorry, I have always seen the humor, the irony and the quality of late-night bull session in every dialogue. The Republic, it seems to me, is the Western World's discovery of the Ideal Government, a concept which has caused a great deal of progress and a great deal of spilled blood.

Another thing is, Plato wrote the dialogues. Socrates is a character in a great literary work.