OF MICE AND MEN
Karenna Gore Schiff, daughter of the Vice President, in the September issue of New Woman: "When I was a kid, 'Mighty Mouse' was a popular cartoon, and my mother would say, 'Now, the girl mouse is going to get rescued by Mighty Mouse. And I don't like the show for that reason. You should just realize that the girl mouse could get herself out of that situation on her own.' And I absorbed all that."

MAN OF STEEL
William Bradley, a California-based Democratic political consultant not to be confused with the presidential candidate, in the September 6 issue of The Nation: "Anyone who underestimates George W.'s appeal is kidding themselves. He's like Bill Clinton with a glint of steel."

NATIONAL REVIEW = WOE VAIN LATRINE?
In yesterday's Washington Post, Bethesda writer Ira Allen tells of running various presidential names and slogans through an anagram program on the Internet. The results:

Al Gore for President: "It's proof--red general," "to red pal foreigners," "son, plod, refrigerate," and "God flora enterprise."

Al Gore: "Greet labor," "rote garbler," and "bog relater."

Bill Bradley for President: "Redo fib drill presentably."

Bill Bradley: "Dribble y'all!"

George W. Bush for President: "Pros owe fudge brighteners."

George W. Bush: "He grew bogus."

George Bush: "He bugs Gore."

We decided to test National Review for anagrams, too. "We liar innovate" and "one liar naivete" are hardly flattering. "Ion Newt availer" might have been more appropriate in earlier years, while "new Oval inertia" does not bode well for the future.