Great TV....

...on the web. Charlie Rose, perhaps the best, most-intelligent talk show on air (or the most-intelligent best talk show on the air...) has relaunched its website — and in fine fashion, might I add. Start off by checking out Charlie's one-hour sit down with George W. Bush.

On the more absurd side, it seems a number of otherwise intelligent Japanese citizens have been "fleeced" — literally — by a pet poodle scam; on the other side of the world, Newfoundland has posted a $261-million dollar surplus and will soon bequeath to its taxpayers the largest tax cut in the province's history. I wonder: given Newfoundland and Labrador's spruce economic record — troughs, a peak or two, follow by more troughs — is a $155 million tax cut the best way for Danny Millions to prodigalize the province's hard-earned purse?

Oh, and then there's this dandy...

再见。