Rebate Ridiculousness: If the Bush administration goes ahead with this plan to address the impact of the gasoline crisis by giving a $100 rebate to each American taxpayer--about enough for a single tank of gas--I have a fun assignment for national newspaper reporters: call up ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond (of the $400 million retirement package) and his counterparts at the other oil companies and ask him how he plans to spend his.

PR execs,meanwhile, need to be figuring out which environmental charity their CEOs plan to donate their checks to.