While we're all so busy trying to knock down Bill of Rights-violation gophers, King Kong is rounding the corner and headed straight for us:
The government wants a list all requests entered into Google's search engine during an unspecified single week — a breakdown that could conceivably span tens of millions of queries. In addition, it seeks 1 million randomly selected Web addresses from various Google databases.
I only half believe Condy Rice when she keeps saying she won't run for president. So George W. Bush's credibility when he insists that Laura would never run for Senate is, well, less than half. Love this line, though:
"I'm pretty certain, when I married her she didn't like politics or politicians," Bush said.
She must have gotten over at least one of those.
Crisis in public education? What crisis in public education?
WASHINGTON - More than half of students at four-year colleges — and at least 75 percent at two-year colleges — lack the literacy to handle complex, real-life tasks such as understanding credit card offers, a study found.
"The whole U.S. is a free speech zone"? Not when the ACLU and government officials can't even figure out something as simple as creating a patch of lawn where people can express their holiday spirit.
This passing of an American icon seems sadder than most, for some reason:
The traditional Winchester rifles carried by pioneers, movie stars and Wild West lawmen will be discontinued in March, a Belgian manufacturer said Wednesday, confirming the end of an American icon that became known as "The Gun that Won the West."
One of the problems apparently is that the Winchester is just too good:
When Allen County politicians wanted a restaurant tax to remodel the coliseum, I believed them that it would be a limited tax for a specific reason for a set amount of time. Of course, that was a long time ago, and the tax is still here -- they keep finding new uses for it that have nothing to do with the coliseum. I let their apparent sincerity overcome my skepticism, a healthy look at reality that realizes, "No tax ever dies."
If you need a good lawyer for your divorce case, this guy is back:
After five years of banishment from the legal profession, President Clinton will be eligible this week to reclaim the law license he gave up as a consequence of the inaccurate responses he gave under oath to questions about his relationship with a White House intern.
Inaccurate responses? Out here in Red State America, we call that "lying."
If Pat Robertson is a whack job, so is Ray Nagin:
Mayor Ray Nagin suggested Monday that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other storms were a sign that "God is mad at America" and at black communities, too, for tearing themselves apart with violence and political infighting.
Some men are probably going to have to toss a coin to make this tough call: Stop using Viagra or go blind. Have sex or vision. Maybe they could just use the drugs until they need glasses.
If you came across this news last year, now is a good time to remember it, just to have a week's heads-up, in case you want to stock up on Prozac or chocolate or something:
