En Passant

Iran is building nuclear power plants,

and we're building windmills.  Query: What's wrong with this picture?

Above the fold, on Page 1 of today's New York Times,

two stories were given roughly the same prominence by the Newspaper of Record:
1. the earthquake and devastation in Haiti, and 2. Conan O'Brien's contract battle with NBC.

Some might say that her quote is hard to swallow

On Fox News today, a female commentator was asked about the effect of the Bill Clinton affair with Monica Lewinsky:
Her response: "It left a bitter taste in my mouth."