Worst Nightmare

NEW YORK - "Sicko" filmmaker Michael Moore called a truce Monday in his weeklong fight with CNN that flared when the network accused him of fudging facts in his popular documentary about the health-care system.

Moore had promised the network over the weekend that "I'm about to become your worst nightmare,"

So worst nightmare averted. For now.

I have to admit that Michael Moore was once my worst nightmare. It was very troubling until I found a simple trick for diffusing it: I would just repeat over and over as I drifted off to sleep: "no responsible bicycle shop would ever sell him spandex, no responsible bicycle shop would ever sell him spandex, no responsible bicycle shop would ever sell him spandex...."