"What the caterpillar calls the end of life, wise men call a butterfly."

Hans Blix, the former chief United Nations weapons inspector, said Monday that the Bush administration convinced itself of the existence of banned weapons based on dubious findings before invading Iraq and was not interested in hearing evidence to the contrary.

That's not news - why are we still seeing stories about the Bush administration lying about Iraq - NEXT!

"The wolves," Dr. Treves said, "have managed to make dens and breed successfully for 25 years on a lot of private land, on county and state forest land, which is heavily, heavily used by recreationalists like snowmobilers, cross-country skiers and hunters. This is the classic case of the quiet recovery of wolves without a big fanfare, without big attention."

That's pretty cool. Wolves in your backyard and you didn't even notice.

the events in Madrid have been a major blow to the Bush administration's strategy of inducing democratic governments to endorse its military operations even in the teeth of overwhelming opposition from their own people.

Another blow to a Bush administration policy? Never!

An Orwellian taint is emerging in the Bush administration's big victory last year in wringing the Medicare prescription drug subsidy from a balky Congress. The plan is being sold to the public through propagandistic ads disguised as TV news reports, and it turns out the government's top Medicare actuary was muzzled by superiors during the debate about the program's price tag.

Come on people, stop picking on the Bushies! That program is only going to cost an additional 130 billion dollars. Get over it!

At a press conference yesterday, Dr. Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology presented the discovery of a mysterious new object beyond Pluto that he hopes will be called "Sedna." When asked whether Sedna is a planet, Dr. Brown explained that if Pluto is a planet then Sedna is a planet.

So, what does this do for my daily horoscope? Sedna is my fixed ruling planet? Is Sedna an air sign?

The Bush administration, which baffled the world when it used an attack by Islamic fundamentalists to justify the overthrow of a brutal but secular regime, and which has been utterly ruthless in its political exploitation of 9/11, must be very, very afraid.

Hey, didn't I say stop picking on the Shrub!?

I'm afraid. Very, very afraid. What possessed me to read this morning's new anyway....