"Just stay hidden, Dick, and let me walk out first."
- Call President Bush and tell him that yet another expanded wiretapping bill will only further damage this nation. Or better yet, call anyone and just address the president directly. AT&T or the NSA will get him the message.
- Christ! Can someone please give Al Gore the flippin' Nobel Peace Prize already? Then we can stop hearing about it constantly — and he can get on with running for president.
- Don't worry about the declining dollar. It's set to be replaced by something called the Amero. Just ask former Mexican Prez Vincente Fox. Larry King did, and Fox seems to have given him a straight answer! (I guess that's why he's a "former" prez.)
- Check out the big brain on Lloyd Dobler: Actor John Cusack interviewed Naomi Klein about Blackwater for Huff Post, and it's probably the most interesting interview on the subject I've read. (Thanks Dawn.)
- Alcoholism may be curable with epilepsy drugs. Up next: Viagra for a head cold.
- The good news: Clearwater is the star of a new DVD! The bad: It's called Da Hood Gone Wild, and features street scenes of violence and debauchery, betraying the city's rep as the one of the most boring places in the state.
- Finally, a movie everyone will hate equally: The new abortion documentary from the guy who made American History X.
- A more realistic version of the game Monopoly.
This article appears in Oct 10-16, 2007.