One of the most misleading clichés of politics is the advice that when your opponent is doing himself in, just get out of the way. Economic recession or no, Democrats will not win a resounding mandate by backing into the presidency. The Republicans are fully capable of distancing themselves from Bush's economic policy. Gov. Mike Huckabee can sound almost as populist as the Democrats.

This is a major technical and aesthetic breakthrough, and a killer feature for those vexed by the fact that you can't send laptops via interoffice mail. But as I watched Steve Jobs demo his new products onstage at San Francisco's Moscone Center, I was struck by all the things you can't do with the MacBook Air. That's because the balance of power at Apple, and in the tech world generally, has tipped. In many ways, phones are now more powerful than laptops.

Just three months ago, the world watched, transfixed, as thousands of Burmese monks marched through the streets of Rangoon. Their demands for change after decades of harsh military rule elicited almost universal sympathy and impassioned calls for solidarity. The United Nations hastily sent its special envoy into Burma. Both President Bush and the First Lady seemed personally affected--Laura Bush, who rarely steps out of her animatronic shell, publicly called on the Burmese junta to make way for democracy and announced that "people everywhere know about the regime's atrocities."

Three months later, the protests already seem long ago.

When it comes to the dominant issue of the day, Iraq, Democrats say they are devoted to ending the war. But so far they have been afraid to use – or even threaten to use – the only truly potent weapon in their arsenal: a cutoff of funds. Democrats in Congress may not have enough votes to override a presidential veto, but a simple majority is all it takes to stop writing Bush blank checks.

Baseball has made real progress in curbing the use of performance-enhancing drugs. And it's important, as Mitchell implores, not to get hung up on the past. But one can't help but get the feeling that the league is only willing to go as far as public pressure and congressional finger-wagging force it to. Baseball's record on steroids should make clear that the burden of proof is on the league to demonstrate that it's doing everything humanly possible to fight performance-enhancing drugs. That's a standard it's not living up to.

Now Romney is once again moving on from Michigan, just as he did when he left the state for school, a career, a family; for life, basically. By beating McCain here, he kept himself in the race and kept the field wide open. Three different candidates have won the first three contests.

To hear him tell it, Romney won in Michigan because voters are finally sick of a broken Washington. He's the candidate of the future, he says, not the pessimism of the past. But if his path to the White House is going to stretch longer than his father's did, Romney needs to prove he can keep winning -- even when the race moves to states where no one keeps the family's old memorabilia lying around.

You might look at at the picture of the president cheek to cheek with Saudi Arabia's monarch and say, "Wow, U.S. President George W. Bush sure is tight with the dictatorial King of Saudi Arabia. They behead people and fund the spread of Wahhabist ideology. What a corrupt relationship."

But the reality is, if you're a gasoline-consuming American, you're deeply complicit in this marriage, too. So laugh all you want at Bush, but he kisses Saudi cheek for thee -- just as U.S. presidents have done for decades. There's nothing particularly unique about Bush's relationship with the Saudis.

Yes, he wants to amend the Constitution to reflect God's laws. American Taliban anyone? How long before adultery is punishable by stoning? And divorce? Forget about it. We should probably go ahead and cancel the NFL on Sundays too. Mike Huckabee's grand plan to save America is to save us all... one by one. The question is, are voters ready to be saved?