Subject: Priorities
Re: "Frame Game: The Energy Crisis"
From: Munguza
Date: Thu May 10  7:33 a.m. PT

Now that Bush has insisted Star Wars should be fast-tracked, environmentalists can challenge him to explain why we can supposedly build a missile shield in 8 years that will reliably "hit a bullet with another bullet," but can't build cars that get 3 more than miles per gallon [or] develop renewable energy and alternative fuels in the same amount of time.

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Subject: More Priorities 

Re: "Explainer: Is the Drug Czar Head of the DEA?"

From: Fred Waltman

Date: Fri May 11  7:33 a.m. PT

Not making any comment about whether we should even have a DEA (and assuming Explainer's figures are correct) but did you notice: There are roughly 10,000 people who do the work for a $1.4 billion budget. But the 150 people who only talk about the work take $500 million. Something is wrong there.

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Subject: Cloud in the Silver Lining

Re: "Dialogue: The Writers Strike That Wasn't"

From: Steve Young

Date: Tue May 8  4:32 a.m. PT

There's a lot of us writers out here who did not stand up on their stack of unsold scripts and cheer [when the strike was averted]. We are the writers who aren't concerned about residuals, vanity credits, or Internet sales. I'm talking about us writers who just aren't very good. Or is it very well? A strike would have given most of us a wonderful rationale for unemployment. It gives me a cool explanation for why I never get any work. Do you know how valuable that is to a writer?

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Subject: Heroes and Villains

Re: "Culturebox: Summer Internment—How To Market Pearl Harbor in Japan"

From: Thrasymachus

Date: Fri May 11  12:55 p.m. PT