The Midday Quickie

"We think it's important to make the distinction between using the word Google to describe using Google to search the internet, and using the word Google to describe searching the internet. It has some serious trademark issues." File this under "when good companies go bad". This should do wonders for Google's image.

Justin Timberlake: "American Idol" champ Taylor Hicks "can't carry a tune in a bucket." Sounds like the bickering coming from a guy whose 15 minutes of fame has just about passed him by.

IRS Targets Award Show Goody Bags. No more gift bags or swag for the wealthy...how will they ever live to see another day?

It seems the "Avoid GW Disease" has now spread to the Katherine Harris campaign. Career politicians are now avoiding both like the plague.

VIDEO: George Bush Acting Under The Influence Of Something...

U.N. appeals to Europe for peacekeepers. Several of the countries who were the most vocal critics of the actions in southern Lebanon have failed to offer troops for a joint UN peace-keeping force. Hypocrites much?

Marines may have destroyed or withheld evidence in the killings last fall in Haditha of two dozen Iraqis. Be all that you can be, and be a murderer?

President Bush said those who agree with a federal judge that his warrantless surveillance program is unconstitutional "simply do not understand the nature of the world in which we live." Or rather, the king is quite mad that the courts say he must follow the letter of the law like the rest of us. Poor George...how can he push forward the neo-con agenda in a world of rules and laws?