"Doubt it."

That was W's 2-word response to a reporter's question as to whether the president would see Al Gore's film on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth.

Well, let me be the first to applaud the president for his new-found tendency toward the concise.

I think the above phrase is going to come in real handy for him, especially when he is asked whether FEMA is prepared for the upcoming hurricane season, or whether the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq is of tantamount priority, or whether he will be able to achieve a peaceful solution to the problem of nuclear weapon development in Iran.

I'm sure there are other opportunities for its use I haven't thought of yet...