Tauke is not a telecom expert. He is less of an expert than I am. He is, in fact, the head lobbyist for Verizon, who has a fancy title because that's how important lobbying is to Verizon.

At what point does this become less a story about Lieberman and his Web site and more a story about the media's culpability in spreading lies and filth? At what point do we start seeing the same pushback here we saw on the Rather story?

Sometimes the doomsayers aren't wrong. And when the crunch does come, people tend to look around and see what else is wrong, like awakening from a dream.

The United States uses 40% of the world's oil. If we can cut our consumption by just 10%, through simple incentives, this will have a profound impact on world prices.

The Open Source Thesis is that the values of this medium need to be incorporated into policy, that its reach needs to be extended, and that its business models need to be adopted. That's how we can stop digging the hole we're now digging for ourselves.

When Republicans trot out lines about appeasement, or hold the spectre of George McGovern over Democrats' heads, this should be a cause of rejoicing, not wringing of hands.

It's possible Mel Gibson's career will survive its present nadir. But he has already made himself anathema to nearly half the audience, and I think that's the test.

It's just as hard to do a bad TV show as a good one. These economic rules don't change.

The people who embrace this new notion of personal worth, who embrace the idea of giving their best without expectation or demand, these people will prosper in all the ways which count. That's not idealism any more -- it's reality.

All of these stories were publicly available from the moment they were published, and could have been used (or checked) by any media outlet, yet no TV network did, instead using the charge and (sometimes) a Lamont denial, as though the charge and denial carried equal weight.