I sometimes glean the most interesting tidbits of information while playing taxi-driver and listening to NPR in the van:

—Jeffrey Skilling testified in someone’s Enron trial today, and according to the NPR reporter Skilling said he told someone at Enron to “open the kimono”. I gathered that this particular idiom meant to tell all, disclose all the secrets (to the stockholders, in this case, I think). I tried Google and got 41,000 hits on this phrase, but it’s new to me. WordSpy says it means “[t]o open a company’s accounting books for inspection; to expose something previously hidden.”

— Jacques Chirac gave in to the socialist students in France and rescinded the new law that would have allowed employers to let employees with in the first two years of their employment. So now when they graduate the students are guaranteed to retain the job that they are likely not to be offered in the first place. Makes sense to me.

— Beginning May 1, you can get the latest episodes of LOST and other ABC TV programs the day after broadcast date via streaming video on the internet for FREE. You’ll just have to watch a few commercials with your program. Or you can buy the commercial-free version from iTunes for $1.99 per episode. I say LOST is the thinking woman’s (man’s) soap opera, and so missing an episode is a major loss for fans. I’ve already paid six or eight dollars for missed episodes, and I’ll be happy to watch a few commercials if that’s what it takes to get the shows I failed to videotape for free.

— Finally, I learned that lots and lots of immigrants and supporters marched and demonstrated throughout the U.S. in opposition to a recently passed House immigration bill. At least, I think they were opposed. They seem to like the part of the bill that gives amnesty to immigrants who are already here, but they hate the rest of the bill that would make it harder for new illegal immigrants to come here. I don’t really know what I think about the entire immigration issue, but I’m not sure how you can organize a demonstration to oppose and support a bill both at the same time. Too confusing.