Things in my daily NYT headlines email that might have triggered my Eudora "mood watch" filter: cleavage: GUEST COLUMNIST: The Cleavage Conundrum By JUDITH WARNER A real female commander in chief will have bad shirt days and the occasional run in a stocking. http://select.nytimes.com/2007/07/28/opinion/28warner.html?th&emc=th pedophile: QUOTATION OF THE DAY: "Just the idea that this person could get away with what he was doing and no one could press charges has made me angry." - JANE THOMPSON, of East Los Angeles, on a pedophile blogger who she believes described her child in a posting. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/28/us/28pedophile.html?th&emc=th Free the net. Free the net.

I really do believe that nearly everyone deserves good health - and a dear friend's father just underwent tests for colon cancer, so I'm trying. Hard. Like Captain. Kirk. Not to make light of colonoscopies. But it seems to me that almost every sentence in this news story lends itself to a some kind of wisecrack ... no pun intended. Vice President Dick Cheney will take over as president on Saturday — but only temporarily, White House officials say — while President Bush undergoes anesthesia during routine screening for colon cancer. The White House press secretary, Tony Snow, said Friday that Mr. Bush would invoke his authority under the 25th Amendment of the Constitution to transfer his presidential powers temporarily to Mr. Cheney during the colonoscopy. The procedure will take place sometime Saturday — the White House would not be specific — while Mr. Bush is at Camp David, the…

I think the country is in denial about Alberto Gonzales, like the girlfriend who says "Oh but he's totally different when we're alone." Seriously, how much more proof of lying and reckless disregard for the law do we need before someone says "enough." Maybe Jennifer Lopez can train for a few weeks and kick his ass like she does to Billy Campbell in that movie called "Enough." Washington Post on latest revelations: As he sought to renew the USA Patriot Act two years ago, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales assured lawmakers that the FBI had not abused its potent new terrorism-fighting powers. "There has not been one verified case of civil liberties abuse," Gonzales told senators on April 27, 2005. Six days earlier, the FBI sent Gonzales a copy of a report that said its agents had obtained personal information that they were not entitled to have. It was one…