Yeah, Right, Whatever

Yes, there is news today other than Rush's multi-million dollar auction. (UPDATE: Auction's over. $2,100,100 winning bid by Betty Casey. Harry Reid tried to wiggle his way into the auction this morning on the floor of the Senate. He tried to insinuate that he and Mark Mays planned the auction... uh... sure... ) Not much, but it's there.

General:

• Someone's not happy that Bhutto's back.
  
• Reason #879564688934484941 why my kids are homeschooled (and no, it doesn't make things better that the pamphlets were intended for high school kids).
  
• Well... that's one way to study Dante.
  
• A 70 year-old man shot two would-be burglers in a three-week period, and a local reporter ambushed him, bringing him to tears. She's been suspended. (No, I'm not surprised a GFW acted like a GFW. That doesn't mean it doesn't bother me.) (NOTE: the tv station has managed to pull most internet copies of the entire interview- the part where she asks the gentleman "Are you a trigger happy kind of person? Is that what what you wanted to do? Shoot to kill?" - probably for damage control. The video I linked to is the best I could get.)
  
• uh... Vlad... I think you're projecting.
  
• Has San Francisco ever met a law it didn't want to break?
  

Politics:

• Pete Stark has completely fallen off the sanity bandwagon into moveon land. But this isn't the first time he's opened his mouth and said something stupid (scroll down to "controversies").
  
• Senator Clinton is getting support... from some unlikely folks. (Well... they may actually support her... everyone just doubts their ability to afford those contributions.)
  
• A politician is actually upset by a turtle fence.
  

Sports:

• That's just not a career you'd expect a collegiate football player to pursue.
  
• The Tribe didn't know she was Beckett's ex. (Did he really have to drop the F-bomb after the game?)
  

Science:

• Here's a new theory why the flu thrives in the winter. (Combine low humidity, cool temps and closed air systems, and you have a recipe for the Bug.)
  
• I'm such a nerd. This sounds like a lot of fun.
  
• I'm not sure if I should file this under general, politics, and science- China is planning a communist "branch" in space. Great... just great...
  
• But I don't want to do a mock mission- I actually want to go to Mars.
• Short people have an unhealthy attitude toward life.
  

Miscellaneous Stuff:

• Maybe Charlene's "mum" shouldn't have let her get a tat when she was 15. Just a thought.
• I'm glad we never tried to drive through Caerphilly while we were in Wales.
  
• Joe Francis (creator of the "Girls Gone Wild" videos) compared himself to Jesus. I kinda doubt he's read the Book recently if he feels that way.
  
• Speaking of GGW, go, Granny, go!!!
• Some Germans long for the "good old days" under Nazi rule. I mean, really... family values (hauling off whole families to concentration camps-B), good roads (for the tanks-B), and the trains ran on time (taking those families to the gas chamber-B).
• Do we know where Yogi was during the attack?
  
• I'd love to say "at least they weren't killed", but... it's pretty cruel to take people's pets and drop them off 25 miles away.