1) Apparently if you visit Onieda you have to stop at Taco Bell. Or so says Sarah Compter. And speaking of Compter, I got a hit from a Google search for COMPTER'S. It was surprising how many of the results that came up along with mine were mispellings of "computer's."

2) This is an interesting commentary. At first I thought it was going to be something along the lines of "Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is dreadfully wrong, therefore his money is dirty and Giuliani shouldn't have accepted it." And I doubt giving back the money is going to inspire the Prince to do any of the stuff Friedman reccommends. But it's good to have Arab and Muslim leaders' role in setting the stage for terrorism pointed out as a balance to the theme of "of course the terrorists are mad about how much the US screwed up in the Middle East," which itself is a necessary balance to "they're just evil people and the US can do no wrong."