Heh.
Actually, I was surprised to hear that the average age of an O’Reilly Factor viewer is 70? Keith Olbermann was boasting that the average viewer of his show is only 60.
Guess I’m tuning in with the old folks.

Another Bush milestone.

Roughly one-quarter of U.S. adults say “things in the country are going in the right direction,” while 69% say “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track.” This trend has declined every month since January, when 33% said the nation was heading in the right direction.

That’s got to have GOP, Inc. nervous.

Word is out that the NSA is keeping track of phone calls. Presumably, it’s easier to do this here than over there. And who’s to know? We might all be al Qaeda.

The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.
The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans — most of whom aren’t suspected of any crime. This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity, sources said in separate interviews.

The article suggests that the carrier Qwest was not linked in like some of the other telecommunications companies. But at this point, do we have any reason to believe that the government isn’t tracking all phone calls?
Oh, and I’d throw all the other digital forms of communication into the mix too: text messages, e-mails, whatever. I think it’s safe to assume Big Brother can monitor all common forms of communication. The revelations thus far have only been part of the iceberg.

Kevin Drum notes a an analysis of outcomes when football teams face a fourth down.
The conclusion: coaches should go for it more often.

Wow:

The projected cost of building the World Trade Center memorial complex at ground zero has soared to nearly $1 billion, according to the most authoritative estimate to date.

It “only” cost $1 billion to build the entire World Trade Center–back in the ’60s and ’70s; that would be $3.7 billion in today’s dollars.