South Carolina Sen. Fritz Hollings appears to be more senile than Strom Thurmond -- and that's saying something. Today, during a press conference, Hollings mixed up Attorney General John Ashcroft and Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham. That takes some doing, because Abraham is Arab and Ashcroft's a honky from Missouri.

Then Hollings took a page from Oliver Stone's book and said that the Bush administration allowed Usama bin Laden to use offshore tax havens to funnel money to the Sept. 11 hijackers. If Hollings was a TV, he'd be on the Fritz.