Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of negative backlash on the right to this story about Bush supporting the teaching of Intelligent Design in public schools.  From Yahoo News: President Bush said Monday he believes schools should discuss “intelligent design” alongside evolution when teaching students about the creation of life. During a round-table interview with reporters from five Texas newspapers, Bush declined to

counter girl: “Wait, don’t tell me, let me guess:  corned beef on rye, no mustard, and a side of cole slaw.  Right?” Thomas:  “Better make it potato salad this time.  Seems my colon no longer countenances diced cabbage.  Or cocktail onions, for that matter.  But that’s a whole different story.”

Though he works out six times a week—and though the Democrats are using his excellent health as a wedge to set rich, cold-hearted Republicans apart from the millions of poor children they are denying exercise with their reluctance to spend federal funding on kickball tournaments (in which no scores will be kept)—the fittest president in US history is still overweight, judging by the government’s own standards.  From Cato’s Radley Balko:

Who knows?  I haven’t received it yet.* **** update:  (Hello? Is this thing on…?*) **** update 2:  Thanks to Charles and Roger for their quick responses.  Looks like my paperwork got lost in the shuffle of what is doubtless an enormous endeavor.  Which, that’s partly my fault for sending them my info scribbled on a napkin smeared with cupcake icing.

Well, the surmises of Israeli intelligence notwithstanding, my money is staying on Al Gore.*

From Drudge: Senator Norm Coleman today submitted a statement into the Congressional Record denouncing a final report issued by the United Nations’ Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) suggesting that the U.N. assume global governance of the Internet. Since its inception and creation in the United States, the U.S. has assumed the historic role of overseeing the Internet’s growth and has overseen its development. The U.N. taskforce report suggests that

The Telegraph (UK): The trial of Saddam Hussein will be shown on live television, Iraq’s national security adviser said yesterday. The trial will show the Arab and Muslim world “that this is going to be a fair, just trial with a defence counsel in there, with a proper prosecuting counsel as well there,” Iraqi national security adviser Muwaffaq Rubaie told CNN. “And everybody will watch this trial live on television.”

From an August 1 Democratic National Committee media fact sheet issued by DNC spokesman Josh Earnest: The White House this weekend announced that President Bush received good news during his annual physical. Doctors pronounced the President to be in “superior” physical condition, which media reports attributed to his rigorous, six day a week exercise routine. While President Bush has made physical fitness a personal priority, his cuts to education funding

Thomas:  “Sweet Christ is that cabbage ever repeating on me.”

Mathias Doepfner, Chief executive of the German media group Axel Springer, is unhappy with what he characterizes as the self-satisfied reaction of Western Europeans to the Islamist threat growing in their midst.  From The Australian. These days, Europe reminds me of an old woman who, with shaking hands, frantically hides her last pieces of jewellery when she notices a robber breaking into a neighbour’s house. Appeasement? That is just the