First, it turns out that Sen. Kerry’s read my book about Jefferson’s moose and the Net [see the last few paragraphs of this speech he gave to the Nat'l Cable and Telecommunications Association] [reprinted here]. Kerry, Chairman of the Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, said:

“I don’t intend to display a stuffed moose in the subcommittee’s hearing room. But I hope you will keep Jefferson’s moose in mind in the days ahead.”

And today brings the new Mark Trail comic; here’s a link. The final panel reads:

“And Thomas Jefferson, to prove to an 18th century French naturalist that the New World’s life forms were not inferior to those of the Old World, selected the moose to defend the honor of the United States.”