A few dispatches for those of you who have been out of the loop recently:
An important civic leader known for his crusading against immorality was caught up in a shocking prostitution scandal this week: apparently Client #10 is the police chief of Tehran, who was reportedly nabbed in flagrante delicto with six…count ‘em, six…prostitutes. Somehow I don’t think a simple resignation is going to get this guy off the hook.
While we were all busy watching Clinton and Obama hack and slash at each other, Dennis Kucinich managed to fend off the four other Democrats running against him in the primary contest for his seat, scoring a large enough majority to avoid a run-off. So did Ron Paul. And there is now a second Muslim in the House of Representatitves: Democrat Andre Carson won the special election to fill the seat that was vacated when his mother passed away a couple of months ago. Sorry Rush and Hillary, Barack Obama is NOT the other one. Also flying under the radar was the news that a Democrat won the Illinois Congressional seat vacated by former speaker Dennis Hastert.
The Pentagon would like you to know that they’ve concluded that there were absolutely NO ties between Saddam Hussein’s government and Al Quaeda. However, the White House would prefer that you didn’t know that. After all, if Saddam didn’t have WMDs, and he wasn’t working with Al Quaeda, then what the fuck have we spent $3 trillion dollars for?
If you’re a kid attending school in Oklahoma, pretty soon you can ace every exam from here on out just by saying “Jesus did it.” The Oklahoma legislature will vote on a bill that will allow students to express their religious viewpoints without being penalized in class, on homework, or in any other way. Of course, as Phil at Bad Astronomy Blog points out, that applies to everyone, not just Christians, so if you’re a Pastafarian you can credit the Flying Spaghetti Monster without fear of summer school, too. The Texas legislature is considering a similar meaure.
And that’s the way it is….
