OF PASSING INTEREST

Well, I see that Republican stalwarts in the House are up to their old tricks over PBS. Seems they think anything that isn't sycophantic praise must be a malicious attack. That's dumb Bush's attitude ringing through; if you're not with me, then you have to be against me. No middle ground at all. So, now Big Bird has to go.

One day I hope Americans wake up and realize what a con game is being played on them. Republican neoNazis care nothing about free speech, democracy, or the American people. All they are concerned about is holding power, which they achieve by sucking up to deep pockets within giant corporations.

The Gray Eminence was back on the Hill, too, for another of his all too frequent dour performances. I keep saying that the stage lost one of its great performers when Alan Greenspan turned bad and took up the study of economics. No one can top his performance before a Senate or House committee. It is sheer theatre.