End of Month Bulletin

• Victor Davis Hanson explains how Americans are compounding the world's turmoil. He's very right about a very wrong situation. I hate when that happens.
• As if that's not enough bad news, the widening investigation following the poisoning death of former Russian spy Litvinenko reveals that three London-to-Moscow planes were magically sprinkled with radioactive fairy dust. Such happy thoughts to carry into the friendly skies!
• President Bush went to the NATO meeting in Latvia and managed to get a few concessions on support in Afghanistan. Bush continued on to Jordan, where yet another leaky memo splattered egg all over his face. Americans can always count on the New York Times to either embarrass or endanger us at the worst possible moment. "All the news that's fit to shred," that's our Old Gray Lady.
• Newly-elected Senator Webb can't keep a civil tongue in his head while talking to President Bush. And Webb hasn't even been sworn in yet. Nice. One can only imagine the sparkling conversations once he takes office. And we're supposed to be the world's leaders?
• Although Pope Benedict XVI thus far has managed to survive his visit to Turkey (praise God), he's still seriously irritating roughly 98% of the Turkish population. At least he didn't do anything silly, like pray in the Hagia Sophia basilica. I mean, come on--a pope praying? How tacky and inappropriate THAT would be!
• Stephen Hawking thinks we should all just blow out of earth and set up civilization in another solar system. Judging from the daily headlines, that's probably not a bad idea.