And by halfway through 2007, the feds almost matched that number, with $2.7 million and counting.

Here, and I thought it was Jenna's drinking tickets.

Actually, a factor many will overlook is the rising incidence of identity theft and other data theft of stuff tossed in the trash.

I consult with companies... and have other friends who work in larger companies. It's becoming more and more a company policy to try to shred most everything with type on it as an SOP.

Let's not forget 10 million inappropriately deleted emails.

Anyone that thinks the Bush admin is honest at this point has some pathology of their own.

There's probably nothing to this beyond maybe a bit of federal money being slid somebody's way as is SOP in Washington. But then again, we are dealing with BushCo.....

"There was a memory hole in the opposite wall. O'Brien lifted the grating. Unseen, the frail slip of paper was whirling away on the current of warm air; it was vanishing in a flash of flame. O'Brien turned away from the wall.

'Ashes,' he said. 'Not even identifiable ashes. Dust. It does not exist. It never existed.'

'But it did exist! It does exist! It exists in memory. I remember it. You remember it.'

'I do not remember it,' said O'Brien.

Winston's heart sank. That was doublethink. He had a feeling of deadly helplessness..."

We can all relate to that these last twenty seven years, Winston.