Michael told me about the campaign to oust him last Friday afternoon. He expressed disappointment and frustration after more than three years as chairman of the KCRC.

Frustration?. Disappointment. ... We've been ranked No. 1, we haven't finished No. 1.

We understand viewers' disappointment and frustration, ... but we stayed with the [Saints] game as long as we could under our agreement with the NFL.

You can't just pick up a gun and become a gunfighter, or go off and explore for a new world, or pull a sword out of a stone, or rescue a damsel in distress, or-- so we play games and we read books because the world isn't the world we thought we were supposed to get, the world we thought we'd been promised by somebody. Because things didn't turn out the way they were supposed to. So we go someplace else.

[Meanwhile, more than 70 Republican and Democratic senators signed a letter expressing support for Israel and] profound disappointment and frustration ... very dangerous hour in the Middle East.

I think in the near future and all the way through the 2007/08 elections, the government will not take more suggestions from the pro-democracy camp since they obviously failed at the negotiations last time. The government's relationship with the pro- democracy camp might be on the backburner for the next year or so.