It's important to keep a sense of perspective, but we can and should do better.

We are also delighted that this bad bill is off the table for the time being, and that there are still 34 islands in the Boston Harbor Islands National Park, at least for now.

I don't like the precedent of creating a national recreation area, then in the first decade carving a piece of it out to sell to an energy company.

In light of the fact that 'Saving Private Ryan,' which has quite an Oscar buzz going about it now, was released this summer, as well as 'The Truman Show,' which was released this summer.

It seems to me that if you're getting paid a lot of money and these are your real fans, you could at least clean up and look good. Also, don't show up drunk or with a hangover. That's not cool, either.

For years and years, it was a struggle to get the studios to recognize that their fans were a valuable resource, both monetarily but probably more importantly from a marketing perspective. Now that's quite clear on the Internet. Of course you know what Comic Con has turned into.