When Designer Drugs Won't Do: CNN reported that the Pentagon is considering dropping a little Valium on those Taliban prisoners to keep them manageable during transshipment to Gitmo Bay. Experienced military hands would suggest that when a person is bound tightly enough nothing else is needed.

We Said What? Weighing in in yesterday's Maureen Dowd column on the sexiness of TV anchors was none other than 60 Minutes permanent producer Don Hewitt. Hewitt says that calling someone is sexy isn't "dignified." This made several female CBS employees who have been subjected to Mr. Hewitt's definition of "dignity" wonder if they should risk their jobs and start talking about certain indignities that have been going on for years.

We Can Dream: Our hearts leapt when we saw this dispatch out of Huntsville, Texas that a murdering stalker named Michael Moore was going to be executed. It, of course, turned out to be a different Michael Moore. . Maybe next year.

Keep Trying: The New York Times' Bob Herbert, trying to put an oyster into a slot machine, takes another run at making Enron an Oh-So-Scary Republican problem. We smile at the liberals newly discovered ability to be shocked.

Thursday's TV Cack* Moment: Katie Couric, James Carville and Paul Bagala seriously discussing the unpleasantness and inevitability of having to "suck up" in life. They may have to put it in practice shortly. When Don Imus saw the two spinners on the Today Show he promptly canceled their book promotion appearance on his for tomorrow.
*Cack - as long time Ldotters know, is the sound of a cat throwing up.

-Your Suck-Up Resistant LComStaff