That’s one harsh lesson Obama recently learned:
In an interview on MSNBC Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. Cheney said that in the course of researching her husband’s genealogy for her new book, “Blue Skies, No Fences,” she discovered that [Vice President Dick Cheney and presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama] share an ancestor eight generations ago.
. . .
Obama’s family […]

So much for hating us for our freedom. As much as we hear about Middle Easterners hating Americans, they obviously don’t have a problem with our television, music and fashion:
MTV Arabia, a new 24-hour free satellite channel, will begin broadcasting in Arabic across the Middle East on Nov. 16. The Viacom-owned network’s flagship show, Hip […]

The Vatican was last night at the centre of an unusually public sex scandal after acknowledging it had suspended a senior official who was filmed apparently propositioning a young man in his office. Monsignor Tommaso Stenico, a capo ufficio, or section head, at the Vatican ministry responsible for the clergy, insisted yesterday he was not […]

Oh, god, yes!
Appearing on Larry King’s CNN show Thursday night, Stephen Colbert was accused by the host of using the publication of his new book as a platform to run for president. Colbert happily confirmed this, saying that he would likely seek the nomination from both parties.
When King said this was a “cop out,” Colbert, […]

I don’t think there’s anything I can really add to this, except that it probably should have been the other way around:
A 22-year-old man was charged
with murder in the fatal stabbing
of his roommate after an argument
over the suspect’s smelly feet,
police said Monday.

[Hotel Tango: The D-Ring]

It’s true: Blue October’s “Breakfast After 10” is probably my favorite breakup song ever.
White kitchen walls with a thousand windows
Turn on Winston in the den
And I’m still asleep but I can hear the piano
When you make breakfast after 10
And I smell the coffee on your fingers
I still smell the perfume in the bed
The crushed linen […]

[Hotel Tango: Mary]

I don’t do the Sunday funnies (that’s Brains & Eggs‘ department), but it sort of seems like it today:

[Hotel Tango: Mary, my sister]