Daily news mashup
We're inundated with news, from TV, radio, the Web, newspapers, magazines, email, blogs, RSS feeds, and our cell phones. It's just too much to manage. So, to bring a little clarity and order to the miasma, I thought I'd try to summarize the bulk of today's news in a single paragraph:
The Iraqi parliament wants us to leave their country, but Bush isn't listening; he's too busy cranking up the TerrorMeter again. He also wants everyone to know he was against benchmarks before he was for them. CBS fires a retired general for telling the truth. Wolfie's days at the World Bank appear to be numbered, while Alberto seems smugly confident that he can get away with lying to Congress. The Panzer Pope canonized some random Brazilian as a bribe to keep Brazilians from becoming Southern Baptists or something. Gordon Brown is praying desperately too, but over something different: he really, really, really hopes he'll be more popular than Tony Blair. California's on fire, Giuliani thinks he can be pro-choice and still get the GOP nomination, Cheney's thumping his chest at Iran, Chevron's pulling out of Nigeria, more people died in Iraq and Afghanistan, but oops! that military intelligence dude just sort of forgot to mention that the 24 civilians murdered in Haditha by US forces included at least 19 people in only two houses. The US Treasury Dept is investigating Michael Moore for criticizing Bush going to Cuba without a hall pass. Al Sharpton apologized for calling Mormons "glazy-eyed devil-worshipping crackers." Meanwhile, depicting someone smoking in a movie will now automatically qualify it for an R rating, and the people who make Oxycontin are very, very sorry that they forgot to mention it was addictive. Oh, and there's an albino alligator at the Knoxville Zoo.
Whew.