The government has been taken over by dot-com marketing people! This is old news, but I'm wondering if anyone else is sick of the "administration" turning everything into an acronym. Naming something takes away it's mystery; makes it seem familiar and thereby safe to ignore. Especially with names like "patriot", "rave" and now "victory". We westerners are obsessed with and neurotically comforted by our names for things. A rose by any other name does /not/ smell as sweet, or sour, as long as there is a constant barrage of information to cover up the stink.

Information warfare is upon us, and I'm afraid most people don't have the good habits of thought necessary to realize it. I'd say we should teach philosophy and rhetoric in public schools if I hadn't experienced first-hand the way they botched up reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic.