(We'd like to take the opportunity to introduce our newest guest blogger, Oprah Winfrey. Oprah will take time out from her busy broadcasting schedule to make occasional entries here.)

CNN reports that Al Queda has claimed responsibility for the Bali bombing. Other reports have one of the perps confessing.

Someone better go back and correct the "belief that the US organised the explosions is not confined to a few harmless cranks. It is being voiced at every level of Indonesian society, from the barely literate men who sweep Jakarta's polluted streets to middle-class businessmen and educated elites. It has been aired in serious newspapers and is being repeated, in private, at the highest levels of government." as described in this article.

The positive side to beliefs like these being proved wrong is, generally speaking, it reduces or destroys the credibility of those who voice these beliefs. While that might make strident idealogues more desperate, it also might help more moderate thinkers see things more clearly.

This is Oprah, signing off. Girlfriend.