Now that the Bush Administration has built this bridge to the 19th century, perhaps we can use John Sherman, who died in the year 1900, to cross it back to the 21st, where the rest of our world lives.

Howard Dean is the first failed Presidential candidate since Reagan to gain in political strength after running.

As usual, when the subject is porn, the truth is found outside the shot, wearing clothes. There is no demand for Blu-Ray porn, not with aluminum hard disks grabbing the video market. Now podcast porn and TiVo porn -- that's another thing.

The fact is we never should have built along the shoreline in the first place, not to the extent that we have. And we knew it when we did it. The vast majority of people who live on our shores today are wealthy. I don't think they should get a bail-out. Their cries for help fall on deaf ears with me.

Journalism has yet to replace its decrepit business model, and things are starting to fall through the cracks. As the Times cuts back, stories like this might not be told at all.

The right solution is to break up the Bell System again, or to at least separate the provision of bits from the selling of the service associated with those bits, as is done in Europe and everywhere else that copied our 1990s model of regulation.

This is the kind of thing you win Nobel prizes for.

There is no immunity for war crimes. Ever. There is no law you can pass, no wealth you can gather, nothing you can do, once you commit such a crime, that will absolve you before the ultimate bar of history. Bush still thinks he can get away with it. He can't. Saddam Hussein thought he could get away with it, too.

The Buckyballs acted as a "passkey," allowing the peptides to pass through cancer cell membranes. Attaching an anti-cancer drug to the peptide (which is a simple protein) lets you kill the cancer cell, and only the cancer cell.

If we can get on the offensive, and deploy all Four Dimensions of our strength, this War on Terror can actually end pretty quickly. If we fail to do this, if we insist on using solely our military, we'll lose. As we're losing now.