"Good night," you said, and there was so much tied up in those two words -- as much hope as trepidation, culmnating from the sense pervading our conversation that it would soon be time to end that conversation so that it could start anew in time -- I like to say it's percolating, drip drip through the filter and hopefully only the good flavors slipping down to the pot, leave all the bitterness behind in the grounds to be discarded into a big orange bucket to make room for fresh new ideas and then percolate those new ones in the same way as well.

Far away it seems as we murmur in each others' ears, sometimes echoing, sometimes unexpectedly silent, secrets of deep emotion split into packets, into bits, reassembled into sound, and on the other end they say the same thing but meaning doesn't always carry like we'd intended. So much more can be said with a touch, a caress, a quiet sigh.

The logic here seems to be that because some people who called themselves Christians have done evil things, therefore all Christians and all Christian things are evil.

It would be similarly accurate to say that because some people who call themselves Americans have done evil things, all Americans are evil.

Or, since some people who put "PLUR" on their flyers sell fake mdma tablets to 13-year-olds, then anyone who beleives in peace, love, unity, and respect wants to kill kiddies.

The New York Times and the Washington Post, both indisputably among the ten most respected news organizations in the world, are competing for online viewership. No surprise there, right?

Both newspapers have even taken out sponsored links on Google's search engine -- also not too surprising, given that online advertising is growing faster now than it was during the boom.

What's surreal is that their ads show up for the search term "terri schiavo."