“The problem with the Bush administration is that its bully pulpit is all bully and no pulpit.”

Once more into the breach, dear Congress: John Ashcroft and the Temple of Confidentiality, playing now at a Capitol near you.

And Happy Birthday, PC (that box you type on, not the phrase); it was 21 years ago this month that IBM introduced the machine which first carried that name. Remember those? I saw one of the original color monitors just 3 or 4 months ago at a repair shop; took me back. I spent 36 straight hours doing six months of accounting on one of these Compaq machines, borrowed from the LA office of our auditors, Ernst & Whinney (the forerunners of Ernst & Young…this was summer 1984, folks). Then I got on a plane to Europe for six weeks vacation.