When we ask other cities what is your mitigation program they say, 'Well we have asked Bob to tear his building down,' so we are pretty flexible.

There are plenty of cities interested in the Chargers, but ultimately you have to separate out that external noise. We have running room this year to come up with a deal that keeps the Chargers here and protect the taxpayers at the same time.

In all these major cities, the police were all white, a big part of them living outside the central city, and they were about the only contact many African-Americans had with the dominant society. There was enormous hostility.

Drop an apple from a tree.

We might e-mail before going over, but we still go over for that cup of sugar.

It's worth remembering that every time that a new communication technology becomes popular there's usually a moral panic. When the telephone was introduced in the 19th century, there was widespread fear that it would decrease the authority of parents over their daughters, that men would be entering the house through the telephone line. That's something we are going through now with the Internet, the fear that strange men will enter the house through the DSL line.