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There’s a story here beneath the details of [“Petey”] Greene’s life about how things that work in the margins can’t — and shouldn’t — work in the mainstream. (Richard Pryor, for instance, won’t be best remembered for Superman III.)

Let’s see if you can guess these ones:

1. “Put a Lid on It” by Squirrel Nut Zippers, guessed by Glen
   But some of your pals want to stay alive
2. “Happy” by Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins
   But I like watching you undress
3. “The Superbowl Shuffle” by the Chicago Bears, guessed by Kim
   But I love to get the pass
4. “Dirty Magic” by the Offspring, almost guessed by Kim
   But she’s just not that way
5. “Superstition” by Stevie Wonder
   Keep me in a daydream
6. “Running Scared” by Roy Orbison
   You turned around and walked away with me
7. “Race for the Prize” by the Flaming Lips
   They’re just humans with wives and children
8. “Over the Rainbow” by Judy Garland, guessed by Thud
   And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true
9. WKRP in Cincinnati theme song, guessed by Thud
   Town to town and up and down the dial
10. “Jimmy Down the Well” by Monkey Swallows the Universe
    You must be legally mine cos I saved you

WASHINGTON — President Bush acknowledged publicly for the first time Thursday that someone in his administration “perhaps” leaked the name of a CIA operative, although he also said he hopes the controversy over his decision to spare prison for a former White House aide has “run its course.”

“And now we’re going to move on,” Mr. Bush said in a White House news conference.

Okay, so it is true that “Scooter” Libby was convicted of obstruction of justice, perjury, and making false statements to federal investigators, and not of revealing the identity of a covert CIA operative. But wasn’t that last charge more or less implicit, alleging that Libby’s statements to the FBI about Valerie Plame were false in large part because he had known she was an operative, and because he had revealed that fact to reporters or knew who had? There doesn’t appear to be a whole lot of “perhaps” about it any more.

Remember, also, that Bush has not pardoned Libby, only commuted the sentence, which implies that he believes the conviction should stand. Of course, there are lots of other, more likely reasons why Bush would want to stop short of a full pardon — Libby stays out of jail this way, and he can’t be forced to testify against anyone else in the administration — but, on the public face of it at least, he’s still acknowledging that, yes, Lewis Libby is a criminal.

And even if Bush had pardoned him, or Libby had never been convicted, isn’t the possibility that someone in the White House perhaps leaked the identity of a covert operative still worth looking into? Isn’t it right that we send someone to prison for that if we can?

Forty plucky kids ranging in age from 8 to 15 spend 40 days without parents or Playstations in Bonanza City, M.M., a ghost town where they try to build a community that works, cooking their own meals, hauling their own water, clearning their own outhouses and even running businesses such as the root beer-dispensing saloon. They also elect four peer leaders who will pass laws and set bedtimes. No one is “voted out” at the town meeting that closes each episode, but any kids who have had enough can simply raise their hands and leave. How many will stick it out?