ONCE AROUND THE HORN: READINGS INTELLIGENT AND EDUCATIONAL

Alternet interviews Bill Maher today. Love his comment on how Bush missed the opportunity to do a “Nixon-to-China kind of thing.” (Despite Tiananmen, Nixon’s opening diplomatic relations with the unrepentant Communist Chinese struck me as extraordinary, almost redeeming). Maher’s HBO starts tomorrow (Friday) evening.

Also in Alternet today, Arianna Huffington eloquently describes a White House where “anything that can be rationalized is right.” Nothing terribly new content-wise, but she says it so much better than anyone else. Cursor caught this article too. And it also appears on TomPaine.com and Working for Change . The lady knows how to network.

Consumer Reports online offers a quiz about tea . Sample: What country does the U.S. get most of its tea from? Bet you guess wrong. (And no, it’s not Iraq.) It’s all about that other black liquid.