Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke today said that "Outlook has worsened", and that phrase has been plastered on everywhere from CNN to the New York Times. It makes a convenient headline, and unfortunately its not at all true.

With all due respect, I disagree. I use Outlook every day, and in fact my experience with the software has gotten better. Microsoft has turned Outlook into one of the most useful software programs on computers today. Bernanke must be a Mac zealot, or a Linux head, blindly hating everything Microsoft does without regard to the facts.

Oh what's that? He said "outlook for economic growth"? Oh, that's different. Nevermind.