MONEY TALKS

This year, in the United States, the football bowl games all had new names. The AT&T Cotton Bowl, the FedEx Orange Bowl, the Allstate Sugar Bowl, the CitiBank Rose Bowl.

Now that Congress is part of the economy, and senators and representatives can be purchased legally, their owners will start identifying themselves. We will have the MetLife Senator from Massachusetts, the Exxon Senator from Illinois, the DuPont Senator from Delaware, the Pfizer Senator from Florida. Or maybe we will just do away with the state designations, and identify Senators by their corporate owners.

I wonder who will own--or already owns--the Supreme Court Justices? They will no doubt have the biggest price tags.

What a wonderful thing democracy is! The best thing about it, as the United States demonstrates with such remarkable regularity, is that democracy is so easily corrupted.

Bert Hornback