I read this headline, and I thought, “Ohmigod!  With a baby?  In a car?  To what is this world in the process of coming?” Fortunately, I’d just misread it!

if you ask me. A Catholic weekly newspaper in Malaysia has been told to drop the use of the word “Allah” in its Malay language section if it wants to renew its publishing permit, a senior government official said Friday. The Herald, the organ of Malaysia’s Catholic Church, has translated the word God as “Allah” but it is erroneous because Allah refers to the Muslim God, said Che Din Yusoff,

“The reason she ought to be president, over and above her vision and her plans is that she has proven in every position she has ever had in life, whether it was in elected office or not, that she is a world-class genius in making positive changes in other people’s lives,” he said. “If she’d-a put out,” he continued, “I’d never have had to pleasure so many ugly bimbos.” UPDATE:

At Popular Mechanics, The Ethanol Fallacy: Op-Ed The idea is so appealing: We can reduce our dependence on oil—stop sending U.S. dollars to corrupt petro-dictators, stop spewing megatons of carbon into the atmos¬phere—by replacing it with clean, home-grown, all-American corn. It sounds too good to be true. Sadly, it is. Now, I like Iowa and Iowans (not the least, IowaHawk), but do you suppose any of the candidates would speak