The Kraken came out of the depths, regardless.

2000 went the way it did because it was a struggle for control of the greatest treasure ever assembled -- the budget surplus.

The Pubs just offered sufficient bribes to a wide enough circle of key personnel to make their bid happen.

I remain convinced to this day that the main reason the media is so docile toward Bush is that they got their piece of the action then, and they are getting it now.

Ditto for certain Dems.

It'd be tinfoil material, except Occam's Razor has trouble explaining why the media has so thoroughly abandoned its role in a free society as first among speakers to power, not for it.

And the same blade explains quite nicely why they've done it: they are in the game. So many omissions favoring Bush, so many commissions discrediting his enemies, so many collusions placing the national interest second to Bush's interest -- or those of the media itself.

They are partners in this.

That is why they fear us terribly. We're meek, like mice.

But mice are persistent little cusses -- and they reproduce quickly.