[beyond the sea]

Talabani this week visited Bush in the White House, but I doubt you heard a word he said. In one sense that's good. If he'd said Iraq's liberation was a disaster, you'd have heard all about it.

Too true.

[carumba]

What is more, you even get the same conclusions on the sports, tv reviews, recipe pages, and gardening sections. They all must join the same club when they go to work at the newspapers.