Posted 8:10 PM by Gene

Smart thinking again from the editor of The World's Lea -- the Magazine of the Zeitgeist: it runs a respectful Rudy on our front cover (probably because he's liberal) -- and everywhere else it's Toyota gaining on GM! (Too much of a downer for the domestic audience.) Noteworthy that Rick Wagoner says the auto biz may come "down to just two" -- just like "the cola business." Does that mean he's buying Ford too?

And as always our concentration on a rag that seems bent on simplifying the news at every step and that spends too much time grooming future entertainment execs leads us almost to ignore some decent coverage -- as with Russia's Potemkin military. Let's not get too smug, though; there may be demons behind those false fronts.