Worming Its Way Back To You: No, no - Geraldo isn't coming home yet. This is about the new downloadable virus called Goner. While it is in the cyberhood, simply don't download E mail attachments or instant messages from anyone but your mother or best friend. Even then think about it. As most of our IMs are from SallyLovesItXXX and BabyDoMeDo we just do the same old thing. Click them away.

Banfield's No Scud Stud: We've decided to stop picking on Ashleigh Banfield, the bespeckled MSNBC's "War Slut" on training wheels, now that the criticism has become overkill. God knows the girl is trying. She tells the Washington Post she's sleeping on a cement floor in Kabul and scrounging for food. Cushy her work is not. We are going to let her do her job without carping from the warmth of our comfortable lives. It's not fair. We can jump on her when she gets home and restreaks her hair.

The Mellowing of Salon: Salon.com (yes, Virginia, they are alive) has a somewhat rambling but truly sweet piece about George Bush's basic decency. It's worth running the gauntlet of the pop-ups, pop-unders, gimcrackery, wack-a-doodle advertising displays that make a visit there seem like a bad acid trip. The story is worth it, though. Put on your shades and have a look.

Snipe, Snarl, Pout: Senator Leahy has his dress over his head because W didn't care and share with him about his war plans and Michael Kelly takes note. Kelly is so good he makes your hair hurt.

Get A Fork: Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post (you knew that) trots out that tired old potato called the gender wars. Are people truly still complaining about the Old Boy Network? Does it matter whether we get our information from men or women? We think not. What was interesting to us was our reader speculation that John McCain wears panty hose.

Just Asking: Is Arafat rotting? Has anyone been able to look at him on TV lately. For a man so vain about his lack of hair he has worn laundry on his head most of his adult life, he should wear it over his entire face as well. He is positively necrotic.

PCBusters: We have a whole rat's nest of words today and they all fall under the general rubric of racial con.
1. Diversity 2. Empowerment 3. Multiculturalism 4. Ebonics. These are words we don't want back. We want them eliminated from the language altogether. In one way or another 1 through 3 are about glomming money from tax payers and "empowering" democrat politicians. No. 4 simply means black people speaking badly. This will hold them back in life no matter how "diverse" and "empowered" they are

. Your Completely Winterized LComStaff