"An AP story in the Post includes fresh Republican reaction to Vice
President Gore's recent statement on CNN that as a junior
congressman, he "took the initiative in creating the Internet." The
Defense Department began funding the Internet's antecedent in 1969,
when Gore was eight years away from his seat. In a response reported
in yesterday's NYT and LAT, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott has
claimed that he invented the paper clip. "Paper clips bind us
together as a nation," he boasted. Today's story includes a fresh
detail: Lott's office is now intimating that he may have been the
fifth Beatle."