If anyone is interested in the ongoing fight between the New York Times and the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, here's a nice little food fight going on:  First, there's a recent NYT article saying, among other things, "Mr. Gonzalez [Director of USCIS] will soon have time to reflect on a dismal monument to his tenure: the dreams of thousands of rule-following, line-waiting, would-be Americans, signed, sealed in envelopes with large checks and money orders, delivered by truckloads, waiting in shrink-wrapped pallets, unopened." 

And then there's Mr. Gonzales's response, here.  He has some choice words of his own: "My posting today demonstrates to the more than 700,000 newly naturalized citizens that this country embraces free and open debate. It is a shame, however that a newspaper like the New York Times – which boasts with each paper that it contains all the news that’s fit to print – only values its version of a story and leaves no room for that debate or for the facts."

Me?  I'm about to submit my application for Citizenship next week, so all I'm hoping for is that the fighting makes it a little easier on us...