This week's must reads

Time: The end of cowboy diplomacy is the cover story for this week's Time. Could the mag be talking about Dubya's cooling off due to the long hard slog they're dealing with in Iraq? Well turning 60 can do that to some people. read... Businessweek: Takes us inside the bastards we scream at for the pain in the butt pop up ads on our computer screens but have no idea who or what they are. Consumers have strong opinions about Direct Revenue's software. "If I ever meet anyone from your company, I will kill you," a person who identified himself as James Chang said in an e-mail to Direct Revenue last summer. "I will f------ kill you and your families." Such sentiments aren't unusual. "You people are EVIL personified," Kevin Horton wrote around the same time. "I would like the four hours of my life back I have wasted trying to get your stupid uninvited software off my now crippled system." read... Yeah that's pretty much how we feel too.