Elian Gonzalez should go to Cuba for the rest of his childhood. He should not be interviewed by the likes of Diane Sawyer on Good Morning, America. The anti-Castro Cubans in Little Havana are doing anything for publicity and to stick it to their former leader. The whole situation should have never escalated this far. As the boss of my day job told me, someone at the INS screwed up by ever giving the kid to the Miami relatives. The choice is simple. Elian has a father who wants to take care of him. The father appears capable to be a good parent. That supersedes all of this other hoopla. As a concession to the fanatical Miami relatives, Elian should be granted US citizenship on his eighteenth birthday. He could think of his childhood as a twelve-year vacation. The other possibility is that Castro will groom the boy to succeed him. Wouldn't that be a kicker?

In the basketball world, Michigan State meets Florida in the NCAA Championships. I'm going for Michigan State. I've watched a young man named Morris Peterson transform himself into the super hero MoPete. I've seen a point guard named Mateen Cleaves return for his senior year of college, injure his ankle and sit out the first half of the season, and come back to lead the team and fulfill his dream to play in the championship. Couple those with the fact that I'm not fond of the state of Florida in general, and I'll be rooting for the green and white team Monday night. Straight bets only, please. I don't play points.

Daylight savings time is now in effect. For everyone who hasn't started yet, it's time to go outside and play.

A New York Republican woman wrote a book called The Case Against Hillary Clinton. It goes into great detail why the First Lady should not be a senator representing the state of New York. So let me get this straight, Republicans don't like the Clintons. They wish the Clintons would disappear from the face of American politics. Well, that saved me twenty-five dollars and a lot of reading time. I need to get back to Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land anyway.

Wen Ho Lee is still in jail for no good reason. I'm not Asian-American, but I sympathize with the screw job the government did on this man. China got secrets from us, so they picked the Asian guy at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Of course, he's from Taiwan and not China, and we know how much those two countries love each other. The basic deal with Los Alamos is that none of the scientists were very careful about how they transferred their work. Los Alamos is in the middle of nowhere, and it's easy to think you're safe from everything. Lee may be an absent-minded scientist, but I don't think he's the one and only reason the Chinese have some Los Alamos secrets. But the government found their patsy, and that's good enough for them.

Bush and Gore are still running for president. Please stop reading now and release a long disappointing sigh.

Chris Jungle recycles aluminum cans, glass, newspaper, cardboard and the thoughts he thinks people ignore.