We need a Katrina reconstruction commission headed by a no-nonsense, nonpolitical, businessman manager so that we all have something lasting to show for this spending,

Benjamin Hardlysee decided to point it out to me.

They're bringing it in faster than they're getting it out.

Apple Computers is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly Republi­can) computer engineers who broke from IBM in Silicon Valley in the 198os, forming little democratic circles of twenty to forty people with their laptops in each other's garages.

It's a very difficult environmental problem. Mercury is an element. It doesn't go anywhere. It just keeps cycling through the environment. Ultimately, we're going to have to sequester it.

We have not stopped eating fish in my family.