MORE PROOF: "[T]he problem with writing satire these days is that you have to compete with the newspapers, and the newspapers are winning."

RANDOM THOUGHT: "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you're talking real money" has been attributed to the late Sen. Everett Dirksen [R-IL]. That was probably in the mid-to-late 1960's.

Today though, it should be "a billon here, a billion there, pretty soon, you're talking pocket change."