This is a fascinating story because it shows what a free society does when confronted with a crisis. Do we maintain our sense of freedom and liberty and dissent and open discussion of the issues? Or do we start putting the clamp down? ... I'm really proud of this book, and I'm dying for it to get out there.

Michael Moore, on his publisher's insistance that he rewrite his new book, Stupid White Men and Other Excuses for the State of the Nation, to be less critical of President Bush. Story here.