Mel Gibson's publicist has stated that film-goers have short memories, and that Gibson's career will probably not suffer much, especially if his films are good.  I have to admit that he is probably correct, ie., Jane Fonda and Roman Polansky.  At least the ABC network cancelled their project with Gibson - an 'enlightenment' on WW II's Holocaust!....Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability that you'll get it wrong!....Despite a booming Arizona economy and a voter-approved 1/2 cent sales tax increase in 2004, Maricopa County cities' officials are anticipating as much as a $1Billion shortfall, for building roads and other transportation improvements, within the next 20 years.  I don't get it - Arizona wages have proven to be stagnant and inflation has been held in check by the Fed.  What causes these 'sky-rocketing' costs?  Someone must have a back pocket bigger than Mr. Greenjeans!....On average, right-handed people live nine years longer than left-handed people.  Polar bears are always left-handed(And someone actually gets enormous research grants to come up with this stuff!)....Minimum-wage proponents offer Jeannie Battle, age 80, and an Ohio thriftshop worker, earning the mandated minimum $5.15 per hour, as their 'poster child' for a hike to $7.25.  They point out that she would annually earn $6,000 below the federal poverty level for a family of three, and that her six children send her $10 to $15 when they can.  Okay - let's do the math - first, she is not a family of three, so the poverty-level earning amount does not truthfully(or actually) represent her situation.  Secondly- she has six children(no preteens, I presume) and they can only contribute a measly $15 to their poverty-stricken, working elderly mother - occasionally?  No wonder today's younger generation has turned to more drugs than their parents used - they, too, have been abandoned - by the same generation that has abandoned their own parents, as well!....  Darwin was correct, in his theories of 'natural selection' and 'survival of the fittest'(they didn't have a minimum wage back then), as it has recently been demonstrated that humans are becoming bigger, stronger and aging slower, with lesser and later age-related chronic disabilities.  While only 100 years ago the 40's and 50's were considered the age of chronic illness onset, those illnesses are now more likely to appear in one's 70's and 80's.  But don't put off telling your friends and families how much they are loved - life is still too short!