an't you just picture the scene; Fidel hands over the power of the presidency to his brother, Raul, and Jeb Bush asks his brother,George, to do the same for him. The Bushes would love that.

Fabulous news about Paris Hilton. She's gone public claiming that she has only slept with two men in her lifetime. She admits to a string of fiancés and boyfriends, but it has all been limited to kissing. Unless memory fails me, wasn't she the star or central character of a notorious porn tape? So, the world has been witness to 50% of her history of sexual intercourse...maybe.

Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut is to run as an Independent this November after his loss in the Democratic primary. He was beaten by a political novice over his support for the war in Iraq. Ned Lamont, the winner, depicted the three-term incumbent as a lackey of the Bush administration. Lieberman, who in defeat still managed to garner 48% of the vote, vowed to stay in the race "for the sake of our state, our country, and my party." Senator, how does that help your party?
Lamont told his gleeful supporters "Stay the course is not a winning strategy in Iraq, and it's not a winning strategy in America."
Three months ago this wealthy cable television executive appeared to be a really long-shot to unseat Sen. Lieberman. The political novice ran a tireless campaign, invested some of his own millions to ride the growing anti-war sentiment and succeeded. Beyond the he has been campaigning for universal healthcare, fighting for clean energy, dealing with global warming, dealing with the enormous Republican administration's deficits...and, of course, getting our forces home.
The Republicans, with glee, will exploit Lieberman's defeat by painting Democrats as weak on national-security and anti-military. .

I wonder how long it will be before we see Mel Gibson weeping before the cameras with Oprah and Larry King. Nowhere in his pleas for forgiveness does he fess up to his obvious deep-seated animus towards Jews. After his arrest, along with many disgusting comments, he said that he was not a bigot. Admittedly he was drunk, but even with his inhibitions lessened, why would the first question he shouted at the arresting officer be, "Are you a Jew?"

As the warfare continues in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel; as the battle against the resurgent Taliban continues in Afghanistan; as the uncivil war grows in Iraq, now we have a new headline horror story, captured by the Christian Science Monitor with a few accurate words, "Foiled terror plot on scale of 9/11". The fifth anniversary of 9/11 is close at hand and who knows to what extremes of cruelty the enemies of civilization are willing to go. The British appear to have done a most effective job of disrupting a major plot to attack civilian aircraft.
On Friday Senator Charles Schumer, chairman of the committee that sets Democratic strategy for Senate campaigns, issued a blistering memo that said that Vice President Dick Cheney knew of the alleged terrorism plot when he conducted a rare conference call with reporters, in which he suggested that "Al Qaeda types" would be emboldened by this week's Connecticut Democratic primary victory by Ned Lamont. Sen. Harry Bird the Nevada Democrat called it "disgraceful" that Cheney used such rhetoric while knowing what was about to transpire in Britain. Politics,, politics; it's as if in their minds our national security and their continued power are one and the same thing".

We don't yet know how the hostilities and their terrible toll on life and property will end in Lebanon. I don't think that it will look like an Israeli victory. A million Lebanese, a quarter of their population, have become refugees. Tens of thousands of homes and businesses have been destroyed. As it appears to the moment, Sheikh Nasrallah, Hezbollah's leader, looks to becoming the main winner in this battle ,which has achieved what the Israeli chief of staff, Lt.Gen.Dan Halutz, predicted, setting Lebanon back 20years.

Just when everything appeared negative and depressing I came across a news story reported in "The Week," the news journal, that restores one's faith in the future. They reported that scientists at Germany's Max Planck Institute for molecular Genetics announced the invention of the first pill to combat stupidity. The drug, it appears, has shown the ability to improve the attentiveness and short-term memory of fruit-flies and mice. I'm glad - nothing worse than short memoried fruit flies.

There's sure to be more..soon