ALL THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE:

Here's the line of the day, from NPR's Talk of the Nation. A caller asked if we shouldn't be able to tell if it was actually our own missiles that hit the two bazaars in Baghdad or whether it was Iraqi anti-aircraft fire gone astray. Unfortunately, I missed the guest's name, but here was his dead-pan response: "There seems to be a prevalent assumption in the Third World that when you shoot something up in the air it keeps going...it doesn't."