THURSDAY NEWS: * Dan Froomkin on how there's just too many big issues these days to handle them all at once. * Increasing the role of the FBI in fighting terrorism. * The shifting ground in the Pakistan struggle against the Taliban . * Odd: investigating corruption at the Parole Commission . * Using stimulus cash to clean up Superfund sites. * Will Google face antitrust action? * Whoah. The monster ship designed to drill into the Nankai Trough fault. ( Bonus: quake zone diary . ) * Courtesy asimplelife: 'the big gay chip on my shoulder.' ( Bonus: Russell Simmons . )