As opposed to what?  Arranged child? Anyway, it’s been mentioned a couple of times in the comments, but is there anything really to say about it?  Does anyone who reads this blog find him/herself disappointed by the idea?  I don’t think enough of Edwards to give him room to plunge in my estimation, even if it were true. Am I missing anything here?  I mean, the woman seems pretty flakey,

Britney Spears’ mum puts parenting book on hold Rove, you magnificent bastard! 

In “The Big Picture(s),” I noted the establishment media’s less-than-subtle hostility to Pres. Bush’s decision to “surge” US troops in hopes of bringing down escalating sectarian violence.  The latest study from the Project for Excellence in Journalism looks at how the establishment media has done since then: Through the first 10 months of the year, the portrait of Iraq that Americans have received from the news media has in considerable measure

In a kind of follow-up to the animal skins hypothesis of Gaia rape, a new charge: Women must stop admiring men who drive sports cars if they want to join the fight against global warming, the Government’s chief scientist has urged. Have your say: Are the drivers of sports cars to blame? Professor Sir David King said governments could only do so much to control greenhouse gas emissions and it was