Other Crap

"The six broadcast networks are setting aside their traditional rivalries and joining together to produce a prime-time benefit concert to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina."

• My mom and dad were always nostalgic for World War Two because, even though it was a scary time for mankind, it was also a time when good people set aside partisan quibbling and worked together for a common cause. My folks really missed that spirit, and felt that it had passed forever from the American soul.

  Maybe they were wrong.