James Taranto in WSJ OpinionJournal's Best of the Web Today has made a running joke of his description of John Kerry, "the haughty, French-looking senator from Massachusetts, who by the way served in Vietnam".

But in an interview by the Weekly Standard, Dennis Miller goes him one better:

I knew Kerry was going to have to run for president because his features are so chiseled, his actual skull could be on Mt. Rushmore. The guy looks like an Easter Island statue in a power tie.

It's a good interview: read the whole thing.

(Hat tip to Croooow Blog, which is now at a new address.)

I read Robert X. Cringely's column at PBS, not so much for a sense of what's coming in the technology and media business -- he seems a pretty poor predictor of that -- but for the entertainment value in the sheer outlandishness of some of the things he predicts.

This week, he puts forth a cunning plan -- a plan so cunning, you could brush your teeth with it -- to basically destroy the music industry as we know it.

I have no earthly idea whether it would work or not. I want it to work; the sooner the current media oligarchy is demolished -- and in my opinion it's only a matter and when and how it will happen, not whether it will happen -- the sooner we can start inventiing Music Industry 2.0.

Cringe claims to have run this past several lawyers, presumably ones that know a thng or two about IP law, and none have yet found a flaw. Personally, I'd very much like to know what Larry Lessig thinks of it.