[We've some fine fine letters to share with you this week. Dip in. Kick back. Enjoy yourself.]

Why mobiles may fade but cigarettes are here forever
Academics make up silly cart-before-horse assumptions

Nazi auctions, the French, the Law and some blinkered people
Whoever told you people were rational?

Poll-rigging: we get in on the Yankee action
Bush? Gore? Who gives a shit anymore?

Best of the Rest: fines, text messages and a happy clappy Bill Gates
The mad bad world of IT

Flame of the Week: excreta consumption
Welcome back mad people. We've missed you