THE GREEN SNOOKER

: From now on, any fanfare or anguish-inducing piece I read in the NYTimes will be taken with a boulder-sized grain of salt. Not because Mickey Kaus has exposed this latest one, the global warming report, but because the Times is so blatantly ideologically-driven that it routinely stoops to such things. Why get worked up over this stuff? Nine times out of ten it turns out to be a big ol' cowflop anyway.

So I'm back on board with the administration, for now anyway. But can't you guys and gals in the White House throw us hard righties a bone, pretty please? Veto a bad bill, get a real conservative nomination through the Senate, diss the buffoon Pat Leahy and steal his lollipop or something? We could at least stop holding our noses, and we might actually get out and defend you again. How 'bout it?