Dick Cheney once again gets to go snarl on television. Meanwhile, Biden smiles. Keep smiling, Biden!
NATO rockets kill 12 civilians during a much-publicized offensive against the Taliban in Southern Afghanistan.
A bomb in a restaurant kills foreign tourists in India, near Muslim and Jewish religious centers.
Ammonia leaks on an astronaut while he’s building a new section on the International Space Station.
Around 10,000 Germans form a “human chain” to stop a neo-Nazi march in Dresden.
- German neo-Nazis are looking pretty, um, conservative these days.
Conservatives in Texas say the Founding Fathers wanted the USA to be a Christian nation. Read all about it in today’s Times Magazine.
Google Buzz: One dude raves about it, while Google scrambles to make it a little less sinister and invasive.
The Olympics started already, apparently. Guy with the coolest name ever wins silver, and luge events resume on a shortened track after Friday’s deadly accident.
Portland’s teachers and its school district might finally have a contract, but everybody’s keeping mum until it’s agreed upon.
The Clackamas County sheriff’s sergeant opens fire in a bar, kills his wife and himself.
Uh… many of the founding fathers absolutely abhorred Christianity. Several of them wrote extensively about it, go read up on some history, Texas dudes.
SO, DO WE HAVE ENOUGH TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN THAT WE’RE NOT JUST “Air Raiding Villages and Killing Civilians?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a91VZUi1IN4
Apparently not.
Apolo Ohno can suck it. Armin Zoeggeler has the name to beat!