I'm too upset — and occupied, writing a lengthy obit for Comics Buyer's Guide — to post the usual recommended links 'n' gossip here. But I did want to call everyone's attention to Joe Conason's excellent article on George W. Bush in this week's New York Observer. Here's the link. Even if you like George W., you might want to read it. With control of the Senate edging away from the G.O.P., a lot of Republican senators are going to be hard-pressed to explain why it was necessary to investigate every rumor about the Clintons making a dollar but we needn't look twice at The Friends of Bush-Cheney making billions off oil and electricity shortages. (Here's the joke you'll be sick of receiving in your e-mail by this time next week: "The balance of power is shifting in Washington. The Democrats control the Senate, the Republicans control the House, and the Oil Companies control the Oval Office.")