Wonderful news for Nancy LaMott fans. I cherish her six albums (plus the few others on whch she sings a track or two, including the soundtrack for the film Jeffrey) How wonderful to hear more from this most splendid artist, who left us too soon and young.

I can't help but fear that yesterday's black out was caused by terrorists testing to see what would happen if they conducted a relatively small-scale disruption to the power grid. Think about it: they targeted a known weakness (the Hart-Rudman report identified it; see p. 27) and probed to see what the effects would be and how we would respond. And what did they learn: no wide-spread pandemonium, no panic, no looting - but also no advanced warning and no way to prevent it. Could this be similar to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center - a not-so-subtly signalled preview of awful things to come?

Arianna is toast. No candidate can survive such a disclosure. Even though she broke no laws and did exactlty what the tax code allows, people don't want to elect someone who pays less than they do it taxes.

Now that's a smart dog!