Iraq: VP Dick Chaney said on "Fox News Sunday" that "We have a great deal of confidence in where they're [Iraq] headed. I don't think, at this stage, that there's anything like justification for hand-wringing or concern on the part of Americans that somehow they're going to produce a result we won't like." Presumably he meant that there would be no Shiite theocracy in Iraq, but this is the same pol who traveled the country swearing up and down that sooner or later we'd find WMDAs in Iraq. (Uh, Mr. Veep, we've stopped bothering to even look for them.)

My son wants to know if "Fox News" is as much an oxymoron as "Conservative Revolution."

ox·y·mo·ron n., pl. ox·y·mo·ra or ox·y·mo·rons. A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist. [Greek oxumoron, from neuter of oxumoros, pointedly foolish.]

What's that old saying about a fool and his money?

Sports: Now that the Super Bowl is over we're one step closer to the real reason for living – baseball. The last big hurdle: March Madness. Go Illini! Evidently the U of I's number one ranking and undefeated record have brought about Stewart Mandel's ire. In his column, Inside College Basketball, appearing in SI he bemoans the demise of the Big Ten. "Aside from Illini," he states in his lead, "Big Ten doesn't have much to offer." It must be difficult to find something useful to say on an off day.