Everyone Deserves Sympathy Now and Then

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2110151

Jun 23, 2006 — BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein ended a brief hunger strike after missing just one meal in his U.S.-run prison, a U.S. military spokesman said on Friday.
The former Iraqi leader had refused lunch on Thursday in protest at the killing of one of his lawyers by gunmen, but the spokesman said he ate his evening meal.

You know, Saddam's lack of self control in the area of food is a human frailty with which I sympathize. I can't fathom giving up food.

Stand and Deliver

Well - really more accurately, sit and bitch.

A couple in Lawrence Township has collected 200 signatures on a petition to ban the inclusion of the Kiterunner in the Lawrence Township curriculum. Moreover, they would like to develop a committee of parents to oversee the appropriateness of all books used. This will avoid the kind of pornography described in the aforementioned book - the rape of a child.

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060228/NEWS01/602280407

The Grapes of Wrath will come next. . . a woman's breast is depicted. . then the Bible . . nude people in the Garden of Eden.