Get the New York Times delivered to your doorstep for only

$6.40 a week. But there are two good reasons to leave it there:

first, it's the bad acid you've been warned about, and second,

it will make your neighbors think you are so rich you can afford

to take really long trips.

"It was shortly after I helped mold American

public opinion in favor of the invasion of Iraq,"

said Thomas Friedman, columnist for The

New York Times, "that I could afford to build

my $9.3 million mansion in Bethesda and my

massive chateau in Aspen, complete with its

own lake. God! How much easier it was to get

rich quick that way than selling Fuller

Brush products door-to-door."