So this morning's NYT agrees that those handling the mail have not been given proper attention. And in the middle of this ugly time, Fortune magazine reports that on the peanut butter front, PB Slices (similar to presliced and wrapped cheese product, evidently) have come to save the sandwich day, while, in another peanut-butter-and-jelly-merger, the Smucker jam outfit has acquired Jif. This morning, Gus broadcast briefly and cagily on KVET, and Eric at greater length on the Wake-Up Call on KAZI, spending quite an amount of time answering schoolchildren's call-in questions.