His cyberterrorism has become so regular that Feldman and Dixon have changed their screen savers so that they require passwords and read, "Don't even think about it, Lehane."

Matt Lauer: Our next guest shocked a lot of people last June when he quit his job as anchor of a highly respected daily financial news program on CNN. This morning Lou Dobbs is back with a new gig. Lou, great to see you. Welcome.

"We're not going to let the brotherhood down," a Russian soldier in Chechnya ominously announced on television. "The [Chechens] have a blood vendetta. So do we."

I think I prefer the straightforward contempt of Guns N' Roses, who were wont to urinate on their devoted fans from hotel balconies.

But what doesn't take Japan by storm? (I mean, Hel-lo, Kitty.)

Apparently, Al Gore is a 'Beta' male who needs to take on the 'Alpha' male in the White House before he is 'top dog'.

In an Auster novel, characters meet characters named Paul Auster, detectives spy on writers who are already spying back and chance encounters govern the universe.

"It would be hard to find something the human author does that the system doesn't do a counterpart of," Bringsjord said.

A nuclear bomb simulates destruction better than anything else going. Its enormous energy is released by tampering with atoms. This process is so complicated that many people become artists to avoid thinking about it.

In the third "Alien," they showed every detail of the monster until it had the horrific effect of a plastic Taco Bell giveaway figurine.

There's those bullshit professional qualifications: "Oh, he's professional. He doesn't fuck his actresses." I don't care for being too professional.