Nostalgia:
- You remember how that revolving door used to bring people in and out of the Pentagon and contractors for the Pentagon? Now it's for Homeland Security, too.
- You remember signing up for that cheap rate on the adjustable rate home mortgage? It's clobberin' time, pal. "In our zeal to make mortgage lending more available to a greater number of people, it's normal to expect the foreclosure rate to go up..."
- On the Canadian border: less than 300 border agents. The main challenge is to intercept terrorists and high-grade Canadian marijuana.
- You remember the whole blow about Bush's efforts to enforce immigration law? Here's his track record: zilch. Why? Don't want to upset big business. If we stop people from employing illegals, they'd have to pay the locals a living wage and good benefits, and perish that thought.
- The reason Star Trek stuff isn't on the air isn't that there aren't any fans. It's because the whole franchise was owned by people who were interested in the bucks, not the writing, characters or the Buck Rogers. If it sucks, they will not come.