SUPER FAT TUESDAY
It's a reality that Mobile has more vertical integration (with Pensacola and Biloxi) than with the rest of the state. The pinheads in Montgomery refused to change the election from Super Tuesday even though it fell on Mardi Gras Day one of our more important holidays. You see, they moved the primary up a few months to Super Tuesday to make Alabama's primary more relevant. Mardi Gras Day was a fly in the ointment but they pushed on ahead with their plans. The unintended result will most probably be that Alabama's election will become a super important litmus test. Since we have the election a week in advance, exit polls (from the state's most conservative counties) will be used to progosticate the results for the rest of the state and for the other Red States. We're going to get a lot of ink. Bet on it!

CAN YOU HEAR GOD NOW?
Muslim clerics at a leading seminary in India have asked people to refrain from using verses from the Quran as ring tones for their mobile phones, saying the practice was un-Islamic.
(USA TODAY)

WHAT'S SO FUNNY ABOUT WAR, HATE, AND MISUNDERSTANDING?
The CIA has an almost unblemished record of screwing up every 'secret' armed intervention it ever undertook. From the overthrow of the Iranian government in 1953 through the rape of Guatemala in 1954, the Bay of Pigs, the failed attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro of Cuba and Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, the Phoenix Program in Vietnam, the 'secret war' in Laos, aid to the Greek Colonels who seized power in 1967, the 1973 killing of President Allende in Chile, and Ronald Reagan's Iran-Contra war against Nicaragua, there is not a single instance in which the Agency's activities did not prove acutely embarrassing to the United States and devastating to the people being 'liberated.' Therefore Charlie Wilson's War, the tale of a purported CIA success story, should be of some interest.
(TRUTHOUT)