I'm glad I didn't catch those exchanges--they're the sort of thing that lately have me talking back to the radio with some asperity, and it generates funny looks from the 20 year-old nephew who's staying with us this year.

For the rest, Ari's "fuck you very much" smiling demeanor is probably wearying to maintain. It wouldn't surprise me if, by the beginning of Dubya Two, snotty reporters are finding themselves vigorously mugged shortly after these exchanges, or even, at around the time the 2008 elections are cancelled owing to the emergency, "disappeared."

This outfit is the worst thing to come down the U.S. pike in anyone's lifetime.

cordially,