October 22, 2006

No brother left behind, or, Nepotism! Boom

According to THIS LA Times story, a goodly amount of the ‘No Child Left Behind Funds’ are being spent on products from a company called ‘Ignite! Learning’. In what has to be an INCREDIBLE coincidence, ‘Ignite! Learning’ (hey Tim W., does that look funny to you) is owned by someone named Neil Bush who [...]

October 22, 2006

Papa don’t preach, or, Don’t Cry for me Malawi

In fun celebrity news for a Sunday it turns out that the kid Madonna is kidnapping borrowing attempting to adopt just MAY be not up for the taking…Malawian Father of the Year is now claiming that he had no idea that Madonna wanted to ADOPT his son…apparently he thought it was just some kind of [...]

October 22, 2006

Deep in the Sherwood campaign forest, or, Sir, I’ve never choked my wife

Did anybody notice this past week that President Bush campaigned with a certain Congressman Sherwood in Pennsylvania? I realize that in my state of being intensively cared for and non-ritualistic blood-letting, people may have been talking about this like crazy and I just missed it..
Normally, this would not be much of a story. [...]