AS THEY SAY, here today, Enron tomorrow.

As of today, it's as if Enron had never happened.

The Enron news may have been enough to distract people today, or if not, then maybe kept investors to the sidelines to take a look at what their position is on some of the companies that they were buying. However, it did have a drag on the market,

The severance agreement announced today offers former Enron employees a real and immediate option to receive an additional cash payment from Enron. The agreement eliminates the risk that former employees would receive little or no severance as a result of a lengthy and costly court battle that most could ill afford.

Dick Cheney finally responded today to demands that he reveal the details of the Enron meetings. This is what he said. He met with unnamed people, from unspecified companies, for an indeterminate amount of time at an undisclosed location. Thank God he cleared that up. I'm ready to move on.

Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American public by such companies as Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco and Adelphia, we finally got the ringleader. Maybe now we can lower the nation's terror alert to periwinkle.