This is how you do it.

MADISON, Wis.(AP) -- Mayor Dave Cieslewicz says the U.S. Conference of Mayors is too stiff and corporate.
So he's starting his own mayors conference -- and he's already got some takers.

"There'll be no suits and ties, no corporate sponsorships," said Janet Piraino, Cieslewicz's chief of staff.

In a story just over the wires from AFP  President Keep-Us-Safe dismissed the warning of his outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary that the US food supply was easy pickings for terrorists. Contrary to the judgments of Empty Heads Brooks and Oliphant on last night's Newshour, Thompson himself is a first class moron who has done little to make us safer. But by accident he's right on this one (the fact that the problem falls within the Department of Agriculture may have made him a bit more clear-eyed, although my guess is he had a rare fit of common sense brought on by his impending departure. Good riddance, by the way).