YOU MIGHT BE A SPECULATOR. Market Power's Phil Miller does an excellent riff on Jeff Foxworthy. Meanwhile, airline presidents (also major recipients of corporate welfare) have sent e-mails to their frequent flyers inviting them to write Congress seeking redress from, you guessed it, oil speculators. Division of Labour's Robert Lawson offers a pungent reply (aw, NUTS! already having been used) while Organization and Market's Dick Langlois suggests the airline presidents' thinking is anachronistic but not creative.

Apparently, fear of secretive foreigners plays as well in the age of The Da Vinci Code as it did in the age of da Vinci. I invite you to do what I did: use their system to send a message contrary to what the airlines wish you to say.

He posted a suggested riposte.