I’ve just returned from a taping of “Wait Wait” (should be a pretty good one this week, methinks), but I regret to inform you all that there may be slightly less-frequent updates to F.A. in the week ahead: This weekend I’m heading off to LA, conducting what Texans call “bidness” and Southern Californians call “lunch” (interestingly, in the New York entertainment industry, we call it “that thing that people in LA seem to do a whole lot more of…”).

Still, I’ve heard rumor that this “internet” thing now extends as far as the West Coast, so I won’t be completely silent.

By the time I return, I would expect that the Democrats will have chosen a nominee and that the Bush administration will have chosen an approach to explaining the Iraqi WMD thing (my bet is that they’ll either choose “they’re there,” or possibly “they’re not there”). And perhaps the public will have figured out that a stray dose of ricin might be more important and dangerous than married gay people or even a briefly exposed B-cup.

Okay, that may be hoping for too much….