Does anybody remember Bill Hicks' routine about what happens after you get elected President (of the United States, for all of my international readers)? It was way back when Clinton had recently gotten elected. Bill basically said that no matter what somebody's campaign promises were as soon as they're elected they're taken into a dark smoke-filled room with the twelve biggest industrialists in the country and they show the new president a film of the Kennedy assassination. From an angle you haven't seen before.

"Any questions?"

"Just what my agenda is."

"First thing, we bomb Baghdad."

And of course, it's a wonderfully funny routine that I'm utterly failing to capture the humor of. So why do I bring it up? Because I happened to glance at the front page this weekend, on my way to the funnies.

Right on schedule, boys. Good work.