 Today there was another rumor that Noam Chomsky had died. In fact, Noam is alive and not well. He's 95 years old, but he didn't die today. When Noam and I did the book, The Withdrawal, I asked him one day, you know, what's the best way to characterize the United States government? And he said, well, it's the godfather. It behaves like a godfather. If you don't submit to us, we're going to whack you. We're going to take you and toss you into the ocean, put