What are you reading this summer? What do you wish you had the time to read this summer? What's the best summer read you every had?

Re-run Review: This morning's recap of the major dailies reminds us of a boring summer re-run on network TV. The Washington Post's Mike Allen armed with selected documents released Friday by the Center for Public Integrity does little more than give one an excuse to roll-over this morning. It's so '90's'. The Sunday Telegraph tries to revive the tale of the Vice President being forced out of his job because of his ties to business scandals. Donald Lambro at the Washington Times sums it up with this headline: 'Democrats search for gains as market sinks'.

Renewable Lumber: Al 'let it rip' Gore wants the White House to "completely scrap its economic plan and its team on Monday ... start over from scratch and start rebuilding this economy." Is this his idea of re-inventing government? He might want to stick to fence mending.

Revised Reporting?: Mike Barnicle stands accused of inventing a nonexistent uncle in a recent column about baseball legend Ted Williams. Media muckraker Phillip Nobile claims that Barnicle is full of bull.

Renewed fears: Thousands of New Yorkers feared the worst had happened yesterday - that terrorists had struck again - when a transformer explosion rocked the Con Edison substation on E. 14th St. By nightfall power had been restored to the estimated 63,000 affected customers.

The Three 'R's"- We recommend rolling over and reading this weekend's Roundtable when you return. It's our response to the re-run.

This programming note: Short Cuts will return with all new stuff-to-go in this space Monday morning.

-Your never-resorting-to-redux-reporting-LComEditor, Amy Sheehan