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In the end, I spent so much time pondering the implications of the wording that I missed two traffic light changes, and cars started to honk behind me.
Today's Washington Post brings Howard Kurtz pondering the media angle: The New York Daily News last week sent a questionnaire to 12 presidential candidates asking whether they'd used cocaine.
Suppose, for example, that some business heavyweight is pondering a business deal with Sky Dayton--or is just curious about him, having met him at a cocktail party.
If the pulp fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs gives us a glimpse into the often appalling collective unconscious of white-supremacist America, the Disney version of Tarzan will provide a similar service to future scholars pondering the equally weird mentality of feminized and Green America, circa 2000.
The media seized on the Internet angle, pondering whether e-mail is private (answer: No) and whether it's ethical for members of an online support group to breach confidentiality if they suspect a crime (answer: You decide).