Random:

• ABC News: Tools of the Drug Trade — Feds Charge 55 People With Peddling Drug Tools

  This is as ignorant as all get out. Yet another case of Ashcroft stealing our freedom piece by piece. The war on drugs is bad enough. We don’t need a war on drug paraphernalia too. Our jails are already packed with drug offenders. Let’s save the cells for real criminals who commit acts of violence and let the potheads go. I for one feel safer knowing that potheads are sitting at home chilling out, than to know that violent folks are being let out of prison too early.

• Column by Molly Ivins: Settle down and listen up — Time for a quick primer on French history. This means you, George Will

  Read this column the next time you’re tempted to call the folks in France “cheese eating surrender monkeys.”