NEW READER! I have a reader in New York City. NEW YORK CITY! I feel like a Pace Picante Sauce commercial. Anyway, Brandon says by e-mail he is reading the blog. Thanks, Opera Boy. I'll try to provide a slice of the Southwest for you while you are in exile in the Big Apple. Please tell my daughter it is really crummy there so she will not want to go.

Have you ever noticed that certain occupations are drawn to certain cities? Opera singers are drawn to New York. I admit it sounds more sophisticated. If you say, I'm in New York with the opera, you feel much cooler than they guy who says I'm with the Mud Holler, Arkansas Light Opera.

Actors are drawn to Hollywood (and some to New York). Lawyers often want to go to D.C.

Who is drawn to Fort Worth?

I'll have to get back to you on that.

CLARK WALKS IN CLINTON'S FLIP FLOPS. Clark has evidently walked a mile in Bill Clinton's flip flops. He flip flops on positions, lies about them, and cannot keep them straight, just like his mentor.

The Drudge Report has published Clark's testimony before Congress stating the need for the war and alleging that Saddam had weapons. Oops!

Michael Moore likes Clark for opposing the war in Iraq. Oops. MM should read Drudge.

Please form a line at the back for towels to wipe the egg off your faces.

NAIL IN THE COFFIN. Michael Moore has endorsed Wesley Clark. Hopefully, that will kill his chances completely. Moore, the ultimate peacenik cannot have anything in common with Clark philosophically, but believes he has the chance to beat the President. Moore wants that worse than ideology.

IT IS AS IT WAS - THE PASSION. Mel Gibson's account of the death of Christ is coming to the theater. He will open it in over 2000 outlets, just as if a major studio did it. Hopefully, believers will take their friends to see it. Hopefully, they will also buy lots of tickets. I would like to see Mr. Gibson get back his investment in bringing this story to life. February 25 is the date. My church has bought out a screening. Get yours to do one also.

IS DEAN FALTERING? Zogby's poll says that John Kerry is now in the lead in Iowa with 22 percent of the vote. Dean is at 21 percent.

STOP THE PRESSES! Dick Gephardt and I agree about something. Gephardt says Howard Dean's words can't be trusted and his motives must be questioned. I agree!

BRING BACK DEAN. Vermont needs Dean back. It seems residents there pay more for their cocaine than anyone except West Virginia.