Just think: Only 21 more months to go
News Item: "Last week, during Hillaryfest and Obamarama . . ."
Can Giulianipalooza be far behind?
The national dialogue has started.
On the right track
News Item: ". . . Huckabee acknowledged that the GOP presidential field was getting crowded, but, likening it to a NASCAR race, he said, 'The cars in the first few slots on the first lap are not typically the ones that see the checkered flag.' "
Corporate sponsors . . . going around endlessly in circles. . . . Mike Huckabee seems to have our politics right.
Support hosed
News Headline: "Bush budget cuts veterans health care."
Someone is sending our troops a message.
C-SPAN snooze
President Bush saying he might not have time in a busy schedule to watch the House debate the Iraq war:
"It's not as if the world stops when Congress does their duty."
The world should. It is a rare and special occasion.
Timely death
News Headline: "Obsessed with Anna Nicole Smith."
News Headline: "Round-the-clock coverage sparks a media debate."
Then again, is this too big a price to pay for hearing hardly a word about the Paris Hilton-Ivanka Trump feud?
Making his bones
News Item: Creationist Bishop Boniface Adoyo of Kenya demands that the national museum hide away in a back room the most complete skeleton of a prehistoric human ever found, saying such scientific specimens "are killing our faith."
Yes. But is there is a downside to that?
He'll let you know
News Headline: "Who does Barack Obama think he is?"
As the slightest bit of post-announcement backlash starts to set in.
Keep looking
News Headline: "Women settle for mediocre sex, scientist finds."
It was a woman scientist who decided to look into this.
Pssst!
The Case for Zero Tolerance of Modern School Administrators (cont'd):
After public criticism, a Rhode Island school's ban on children talking at lunch so that teachers can better hear when a child starts choking has been redefined to allow whispering while eating.
If a phone rings in the forest . . .
Modern Education + the Criminal Mind =
A man fleeing police on foot in East Dennis, Mass., found a good hiding spot in a nearby forest, police said.
He was carrying a cell phone.
He kept the cell phone turned on.
Sometimes life is fair.
Pssst!
News Item: "The National Federation of the Blind said it is very concerned about any law that would require more hybrid and fuel-efficient cars be sold because those cars make very little noise . . ."
When poliical correctness collides with political correctness . . .
Oh, brother
QT Early Warning System:
"The Hardy Men," a movie in development about the Hardy Boys overcoming their estrangement later in life.
Nice gestures
Catherine Almanzo, a Mundelein reader, and Ray Haase, a Wilmette reader, regarding other readers reporting spam messages with senders' names including Misgiving J. Ethernet and Gestures A. Formulation, want you to know they have been spammed by Lusciousness T. Avalanche and Apologias H. Annulment.
Respectively.
Life and death
Today's Birthdays: St. Valentine's Day Massacre, 78; Heart-Liver Transplant, 23.
Love hurts
News Headline: "Five injured in wedding brawl."
News Headline: "Two reject settlement in sex harassment suit."
News Headline: "In class, teens learn about dating's downside."
News Headline: "Wife in the clear over poison plot."
Happy Valentine's Day!
Who's on first?
Tara Gallagher, a Seattle reader, regarding another reader's asking how many other readers know Mitt Romney's real first name, not to mention which presidential candidate (easier question) has the middle name Diane, writes:
"I'm sure you have heard many times by now that Mitt Romney's first name is Willard. Mitt is his middle name. P.S. I would enjoy voting for a John Diane Edwards or, better, a Dennis Diane Kucinich. Possibly even a Willard Mitt Diane Romney, although not this one."
Rudolph William Louis Diane Giuliani III would like a word with you.
Both Giuliani and John McCain are IIIs, by the way.
