Britney Spears finally fires back:

A month after Maryland’s first lady apologized for saying she would shoot Britney Spears if she had the chance, a frosty response from the pop icon appears in a magazine to be distributed Friday.
“She probably needs to get laid,” Entertainment Weekly quotes Spears saying of Kendel Ehrlich, the wife of Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.

In a related item, Spears reveals how she keeps her cool:

In case anyone remains in the dark, she [Spears] reveals in the upcoming issue of People that the song [“Touch of My Hand”] is an ode to, er, masturbation.
“I think if you say you don’t do it, you’re lying,” she says. “I think it’s a positive thing to indulge in yourself in a sexual way sometimes. I don’t do it all the time. It’s life. Guys can talk about it. Why can’t girls? It’s a positive thing.”
Waxing philosophical (or waxing something), Spears goes on:
“I think it’s positive for girls not to depend on guys. Being alone – I’m one to say! – you really start to figure out what makes you happy. And then you’re able to give more to other people … When you turn yourself on, that really is what turns the guy on. So just make yourself happy and let them just kind of follow up after you.”

There you have it.

It wasn’t such a great day for the government missionaries–i.e., those who would use government in to promote their religion.
First, Justice Moore got axed for refusing to obey a federal court and remove his graven image.
Then, this evening I saw Greene County, TN Mayor Roger Jones appearing on “O’Reilly Factor.” Anyone familiar with the views of Mr. “Looking Out for Us” knows he fully supports government promoting its “Judeo-Christian” heritage. But even he wasn’t far enough out there to go along with Jones’ call for a government proclamations on how our nation believes in the Christian God.
As if Jones didn’t do enough damage during the course of a five-minute interview, he closed with this blast:

“We don’t want God taken away from us.”

Really? Where’s God being taken?
Just to put my remarks in context, I’m a Christian who goes to church every week. It rubs me the wrong way when:

(1) I hear someone complaining about some imagined persecution of American Christians; or
(2) A politician uses religion to pander to voters.

In the unfortunate case of Mayor Jones we have both.
Anyone who needs the government to promote their religion doesn’t have a belief system worth promoting.

. . . up at Inn of the Last Home.

Who knows how accurate this estimate is, but if it’s anywhere close this is bad news:

The White House yesterday drew up emergency plans to accelerate the transfer of power in Iraq after being shown a devastating CIA report warning that the guerrilla war was in danger of escalating out of US control.
. . .
One military intelligence assessment now estimates the insurgents’ strength at 50,000. Analysts cautioned that such a figure was speculative, but it does indicate a deep-rooted revolt on a far greater scale than the Pentagon had led the administration to believe.
An intelligence source in Washington familiar with the CIA report described it as a “bleak assessment that the resistance is broad, strong and getting stronger”.
“It says we are going to lose the situation unless there is a rapid and dramatic change of course,” the source said.

50,000 insurgents? Wow.
The flypaper idea won’t be such a good plan if the flies overrun the paper. Things are going to get ugly if we don’t get the Iraqi people to behave as though they have a personal stake establishing a stable government. And the Coalition Provisional Authority hasn’t made acceptable progress in that direction.
Hopefully the administration’s latest plan will make more headway.

Now this is pretty ridiculous.
And I thought the car was bad.