Everyone warned us against it. "Don't get hung up on the Bush," they'd tell us. "Don't let your Messianic adoration of the man eclipse your journalistic mission of providing balanced, objective coverage of important issues. That said, you'll find more Dubya in this one than is good for any healthy person. There's declassified documents; a big GOP fund-raiser to be planned; a survey; as well as up-to-the-month coverage of election 2004.

This has been a tough couple of weeks all around. Monsanto drops a fresh lawsuit on us every time we turn around too fast. A number of our core staff have been injured on the job. And thanks to some "creative" accounting by our money people, (the IRS called our methods "free association" and "non-linear") we've suffered a major audit and seen our stock price plummet by 80%. As a result, Black Cow Press has been forced to sell off a good portion of its Vivendi Universal holdings, and its controlling interest in Viacom. We're putting anything that's left in the developing Kurdish stock market. Cross your fingers. If all else should fail, our man Halvorsen claims to have a sure fire plan that'll solve all our financial woes. Check in with Butch.