rganizers for the so-called Million Mom March, a Mother's Day demonstration on the Mall in favor of gun control, say they expect to draw 100,000 participants. They won't be marching, either: There are no plans to have the crowd walk en masse anywhere.

We're Not Gonna Take It
Dee Snider, lead singer of Twisted Sister, whose lyrics Tipper Gore criticized during her family-values period in the 1980s: "I'm sort of supporting Al Gore, which is bizarre." Snider, who once testified before Congress with Frank Zappa, added: "I don't trust the guy as far as I can throw him."

Growing Up
Hanna Rosin of the Washington Post writes today: "Most religious conservatives still define themselves as Republican, but the blinkers are off. In a recent survey of members of the National Association of Evangelicals, a cross section of conservative Christian leadership, about 38 percent of respondents said they would be open to voting for a Democrat." And how does Rosin characterize this trend? "In political terms, the transition is known as 'maturing.'" In plain-English terms, that's known as "insulting."

Democratic Ethics
The Post today also describes Stanley Brand as "a Democratic ethics lawyer" in an article by Juliet Eilperin. Brand is counsel to Tony Coelho. (Unethical people need ethics lawyers.) But what about Brand himself? As the National Journal revealed two weeks ago in an extensive article on Coelho's shady dealings as U.S. commissioner general to Portugal's Expo '98, Brand "recently retained a team of private investigators who, among other things, have collected derogatory personal information on at least one federal employee who has been cooperating with the government investigators" conducting a criminal probe of Coelho's tenure.

Miracle Watch
ABCNews.com has a reasonably balanced article on public opinion about guns at abcnews.go.com.