paris hilton + paris riots = paris hilton riots

Google news reports 17 hits. I'm wondering if this might be a cool new net-sport. Take a news item and mash in a celebrity name and see how many hits are produced.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1882-1945)

Makes me wonder why anyone would be against the McCain amendment

no person in the custody or under effective control of the Department of Defense or under detention in a Department of Defense facility shall be subject any treatment or technique of interrogation not authorized by and listed in the United States Army Field manual on intelligence interrogation.

That's it. What exactly is objectionable about it?

Which is cuter, the Skull Scarf or the Monkey cell phone cozy? Maybe the Babyplane has them both beat.

You gotta love the way GOPpers can't see hypocrisy in the Bush administration while being hyper-aware of every action in France.

Or the way they are hyper-aware of the demand a windfall profit tax for the oil industry and willfully ignorant of the history of energy subsidies for the energy industry.

I could go on, but what would be the point? Some people really like the shadows on the cave wall.