Prozac for Republicans?

"This is a disgrace. An absolute disgrace. Shame on ATT. Shame on Verizon. I'm glad I use Sprint and don't have a landline. And if I were a mayor or a Governor, I would try to move contracts away from these companies and towards Qwest or other telco players. At the very least I'd make local subsidies contingent upon not spying on my constituents."

Not another new poll claiming that Bush has hit a "new low." But actually, it is a new low. Harris has the president at 29 percent.

Jeff Jarvis undergoes media culture shock upon returning from London:

"After a week and a half of reading British papers, something has been bugging about reading American papers again. This morning, it hit me when I read this sentence in a New York Times story about the jury instructions in the Enron case, allowing jurors to find Lay and Skilling guilty of 'deliberate ignorance.' There followed a discussion about Skilling not employing the ostrich defense and then The Times felt compelled to add this:

"By allowing the so-called ostrich instruction, referring to that bird's burying of its head in the sand . . .

"They treat us like idiots, that's what bugs me. That is the perch American journalism has built for itself and they have no idea how much it irritates the public to be treated as if we don't know a damned thing and thus we need them to explain everything to us."

Finally, Andrew Sullivan writes about sex:

"Google has a new feature called Google Trends . It tracks the number of searches for various topics online, and also gives you some regional analysis of where those searches are taking place. A reader clued me in. And here's a somewhat revealing discovery. Who's looking for 'sex' the most? The countries with the most searches for that word is - surprise! - Pakistan, followed by Egypt, Iran, India, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Hmmm. It couldn't have anything to do with all that Muslim repression, could it? Arabic is the most popular language for 'sex' searches. Islamism, like Christianism, doesn't conquer sex; it just fetishizes it and forces it underground. The most sex-obsessed Christian country? Poland. Congrats to the Vatican . . .

"Of course, I do realize I just ruined productivity today in a few offices across America."

Not that my readers would rush off to check out such a . . . hey, where'd everybody go?