I saw a commercial for "It's Pasta Anytime," that shelf-stable pasta-like substance with sauce-like substance -- but it was labeled "Kraft," and the pitch said, "and it's from Kraft!" I didn't remember that being a Kraft brand; I thought it was some smaller brand. So I searched Google for "It's Pasta Anytime." Sure enough, it was a "Classico" product until Kraft bought the line from Borden last August. Instant gratification, gotta love it.

OK, what am I missing here? The Ashcroft Justice Department wants to extradite Lofti Raissi, an Algerian pilot, from the UK where he lives to the US to face indefinite detention and eventual "conspiracy to murder" charges. The US says Raissi trained the pilot who flew into the Pentagon on 2001.09.11.

Now, the UK has been our strongest ally in the War On Terror, so extradition shouldn't be a problem if the US has any evidence this guy is involved. I mean, any evidence. And after several court appearances in London, the US had none. The only crime they could come up with was failure to disclose that he had been convicted as a teenager for stealing something (under UK law, he stayed clean for five years and was entitled to say he had "no convictions"). Oh, and he didn't tell one FAA doctor that he'd had knee surgery, but he'd told an earlier FAA doctor about it, and the first doctor's notes were in the second doctor's hands and he had a big obvious scar on his knee.

The judge went so far as to say, in open court, that Rassi "has appeared before me on several occasions where allegations of involvement with terrorism were made. I would like to make it clear that I have received and the court has received no evidence to support such a contention."

Ashcroft's people brand this guy a terrorist and want him facing life, and the only evidence they have even for allies is that he told one doctor instead of two about obvious knee surgery. What am I missing here?