More infallible political predictions

1. Over the next couple of weeks we will see yet another round of "Bush surging again" articles in the newspapers.

2. They will have an extremely thin factual basis: small upticks in several job-approval polls (Fox's might even top 50 percent!) combined with the authors' horse sense of what ought to be happening in the wake of the Reagan funeral.

3. Nevertheless, they will produce an outbreak of depressive moaning from Democrats.

4. The whole episode will be forgotten by July.

The Moonies own Wacom

as mentioned herein, with other interesting facts that ought to be better known than they are. (He forgot to mention UPI.)

That bizarre ceremony at the Dirksen building did get a fair amount of coverage on the Internet, if I recall correctly.

2007 correction: The Moonies don't own Wacom.

Phoebe

The best available picture of Saturn's small moon Phoebe isn't very good. But that will change tomorrow and Friday.

Also, here are some rings. The dot is the shepherd moon Prometheus.