I was robbed. ‘s all I’m saying.

Michael Moore, in a phone call to the quantum physics lab, Canberra’s Australian National University, May 9: “Forget all that ‘lasers and crystals’ technical junk. What I need to know is, can it make cheeseburgers materialize on the arm of a recliner? Because if so I want 6, all with bacon and onions, like, yesterday…”

William Safire, writing in today’s New York Times: Torture is both unlawful and morally abhorrent. But what about gathering intelligence from suspected or proven terrorists by codified, regulated, manipulative interrogation? Information thus acquired can save thousands of lives. Will we now allow the pendulum to swing back to “name, rank, serial number,” as if suspected terrorists planning the bombing of civilians were uniformed prisoners of war obeying the rules of