Another great film star has passed away. Charlton Heston is dead at age 83. He will live on as long as films like Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments still have an audience.

The public image of the Olympics continue to take a hit as every public event is marred by some protest or other (quite justifiable, in my view). The latest fiasco is the Olympic Torch procession through London. The people who run the Olympics should have realized that by awarding the games to China, they would be awarding the "butchers of Beijing" who run that country. Thus, it is not surprising that people who oppose their authoritarian practices, especially their efforts at crushing dissent in Tibet, are finding plenty of opportunities to bring their grievances to light by assailing the activities surrounding the Olympics.

Could a new, superfast network replace the Internet? So let it be written, so let it be done.