In an item in last week's Short Takes column we called for a nuclear strike on the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, based upon widespread reports of the FBI's arrest of white supremacists possessing biological weapons and planning terroristic attacks. Well, it turns out the ringleader, since released, was not a white supremacy activist but a research scientist whose investigation of possible cures for multiple sclerosis and AIDS included possession of animal-grade anthrax vaccine. We deeply regret having taken the word of U.S. government officials and major networks at face value, and offer our sincerest condolences to family and friends of the 1.3 million residents and visitors of Clark County, Nevada, that were horrifically incinerated as a result of Operation Desert Flambe. We're really, really sorry. It sounded so...plausible.