Bush Bombs With Bomber Jacket Gift for Brown - The Sleuth

BUSH BOMBS WITH BROWN
British prime minister Gordon Brown, intentionally it seems, did not reveal the gift that President Bush presented to him during his visit to Camp David early this week. Instead, they found it by happenstance: a gold box with a presidential seal sitting neglected in an empty seat in the back of the plane taking Brown back to London.
(WASHINGTON POST)

AR-bonics

SOUTHERN DICTIONARY
Well, just what is the difference between being cattytwompus and something that is antigogglin? These are actual words and phrases used in common parlance by educated people. While many of these words and phrases have their origins in a semi-isolated rural heritage, they do follow coherent and consistent grammatical rules.
(Suggested by Kathryn King)

San Francisco Orders Medical Marijuana Dispensaries to Sell Fatter Bags | Stop the Drug War (DRCNet)

MORE BUD, PLEASE
Regulation of medical marijuana distribution can have some interesting side effects. The following email, sent to a dispensary operator by an employee of the San Francisco Department of Health, shows that the city is requiring clubs to be more careful in their measurements.
(STOPTHEDRUGWAR.ORG, unearthed by Paul Whitehurst)

TSUNAMI TUESDAY?
Barack Obama has a slim advantage in two out of the four early primary states, but he would get crushed on "Tsunami Tuesday" by Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for President?
(TOWNHALL.COM)

NSA Spying Part of Broader Effort - washingtonpost.com

SPY PROBE BROADENS
The Bush administration's chief intelligence official said yesterday that President Bush authorized a series of secret surveillance activities under a single executive order in late 2001. The disclosure makes clear that a controversial National Security Agency program was part of a much broader operation than the president previously described.
(WASHINGTON POST)

Budget Office Analysis Says War Could Cost $1 Trillion - CommonDreams.org

WAR COULD COST TRILLION
The war in Iraq could ultimately cost well over a trillion dollars — at least double what has already been spent — including the long-term costs of replacing damaged equipment, caring for wounded troops, and aiding the Iraqi government, according to a new government analysis.
(COMMON DREAMS)

ABC News: Judge Awards $101M to Men Framed by FBI

FBI STUNG
In a stinging rebuke of the FBI, a federal judge has ordered the government to pay a record judgment of nearly $102 million because agents withheld evidence that would have kept four men from spending decades in prison for a mob murder they did not commit.
(REUTERS, unearthed by Paul Whitehurst)

WRITER DUMPS HUBBY FOR TED | | Gossip - New York Post Online Edition

TABLOID DREAM INDEED!
Put down your cup of coffee or you might spill it," Butler, 62, wrote to his graduate students and fellow professors at Florida State University in Tallahassee. "Elizabeth is leaving me for Ted Turner."

Elizabeth is Butler's wife of 12 years, Elizabeth Dewberry, 44, an author in her own right, who might be attracted to Turner, 68, because the media mogul resembles the grandfather who molested her as a child, Butler writes in the shocking e-mail.
(NEW YORK POST)