Virgin Mary Sandwich

More evidence that people are stupid:

The Internet auction house eBay Inc. canceled bids for half of a 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich that its owner said bore the image of the Virgin Mary.
Diana Duyser, of Hollywood, put the sandwich up for sale last week, drawing bids as high as $22,000 before eBay pulled the item Sunday night. The page was viewed almost 100,000 times before being taken down.

Great way to spend $22,000, right? Or maybe I’m wrong. Perhaps there’s a market for partially-eaten, decades-old cheese sandwichs that I’m just not aware of.

War’s Uncounted Casualties

Reason No. 7 that going to war is a bad thing: the people fighting become emotionally damaged and predisposed to unnecessary violence.
Sooner or later we’re going to have tens of thousands of combat-hardened veterans returning to the United States. If we’re lucky, the trauma they’ve experienced in Iraq will only translate into a few additional murders and instances of spousal abuse. If we’re unlucky, we might have another Oklahoma City.
Oh yeah, I don’t think a video tape of a U.S. soldier shooting an injured man in a mosque will go over so well on the Arab streets, either.

New Constitution For Arnold & Jen

According to this site, “Arnold & Jen” need a new amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
I have yet to be convinced that we need to remove the native-born requirement for U.S. presidents, but a case can be made for doing so. That argument, however, should not include we need to change the Constitution so X can run for president.
First of all, the Constitution-amending process is so slow that it’s unlikely that any particular foreigner would still be a “hot” candidate by the time the amendment was finally ratified.
But more importantly, the U.S. Constitution is far too significant to be altered through a personality-driven campaign. The founders deliberately made the amendment process difficult so that it wouldn’t be subjected to the fluctuating whims of the masses. And that’s exactly what’s at work here with an “Amend the Constitution for Arnold” campaign.

Cabinet Shakeup

FLASH NEWS: The world braces for change as U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman resigns. Oh yeah, that Powell guy is out as well.
There are rumors that National security adviser Condoleezza Rice may succeed Powell. Hasn’t Rice already done enough damage to this country? Our diplomatic situation is strained as it is. We don’t need to throw more incompetence into that mix.