IT'S ALL SO SIMPLE

Topical and timely:

*Florida Congressman Mark Foley is oh so sorry for preying on the young pages who serve the lawmakers. The other congressmen who knew of the problem are sorry that they did not report what they knew when they knew it. Maybe we should replace the whole sorry bunch in Congress.

*President Bush is about to go full time campaigning for the election of Republicans. Is that really a president's prerogative? A president's job can't be all that tough or attention-consuming - not when you have such able hands steering the ship as Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, etc.

*Bob Woodward's latest book, "State of Denial," has the War Party in shock and awe. The author contends that Condi Rice was warned about 9/11 by CIA, Laura Bush wanted Rummy fired, and all kinds of other easy-to-believe accusations.

*A baby fell from a third floor balcony in Denver, but was caught by an alert neighbor woman. It's the best story of the day, week, month. A heroine is born!

*Bush, Cheney and Rice all came from the oil industry. How could anyone think that the Bushites could/would have any influence over lowering gas prices right before an important election? You'd have to believe in conspiracies.

Twenty-years-from-now news:

Saddam Hussein was ordered out of the court room for the 33rd time today, immediately after a young judge replaced the old judge. Saddam is still on trial for something or other back in the nineties, or was it the eighties? The judge took action against the defendant in a preemptive strike, before Saddam could throw one of his infamous tirades.

Overheard:

"What's that disease called when you can't remember names and things?"

Quoteworthy:

"We'll breed more terrorists than we'll kill." - George Galloway, British Parliament, upon our invasion of Afghanistan