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Dissembler in Chief?

After seeing news clips of Ari Fleischer trying to defend DOE's Abrahams' meetings with industry officials, I've conferred a new title on him: Dissembler in Chief. Further analysis of the newly-released documents (released only after a court ordered it, btw) indicates "the task force added a section on the environment only after an outcry from environmentalists excluded from deliberations". Those of us who enjoy breathing won one today: EPA pollution standards were upheld in the US District Court of Appeals.

All of us who shop online, take note: online sales at J. Crew just overtook their catalog sales. If the trend continues, your mailbox may have slightly less stuff cluttering it in the future. Here's a profile of Monster.com, with some analysis of what it's doing to newspaper classified advertising. On to important issues: when is a pint (in UK pub circles) really a pint? Regulating the amount of foam in a glass of Guinness?

Requiescat in pace, Dudley Moore and Milton Berle.