The Midday "Have A Drink And Some Lunch" Quickie.

Greek Orthodox Church slams Da Vinci Code; "Quite apart from the fact that the book attacks Christ, it also attacks the church, directly accusing it of lying and deceiving the faithful." Now the church would never do anything dishonest, ever--cough, cough--nothing like denying the existence of pedophilic priests and then playing "musical traveling priests" to hide the fact? Of course not.

House passes $70 billion tax package; still no tax relief for the working middle class or working poor in America.

Ex-CIA official defends ties with contractor; Kyle "Dusty" Foggo and 6 other congressmen love money, prostitutes, and poker, although not exactly in that order.

Scores on new SAT expected to decline; does this mean society in general is getting dumber or the tests are simply getting harder?

Path clear for Katherine Harris in Senate bid; path is cleared for loss to highly-favored Senator Bill Nelson (D) come November elections.

Bush winds up trip to sell drug benefit; sells seniors on the old "I do drugs, and you should, too!" slogan...different sort of drugs, I think, Mr. President?

CIA pick open to wiretap oversight; Darth Cheney snickers as a disturbance is felt through the force.

Army using policy to deny Reserve officer resignations; it's a volunteer army until you want to get out of it, then "stop loss" orders ensue.

Plan to give D.C. a vote in Congress advances; hm, creation of two new seats in heavy GOP voting blocks...how interesting.

PoliticalCorrectness? out.

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