Gosh, I haven't read much news in the last couple weeks...feels a little weird to be so out of the loop. Towhit, here's a roundup of stories I found interesting today:

• Keith Ellison, our first Muslim congressman, has been doing his fellow Minnesotans proud. Speaking in front of Atheists for Human Rights, he compared Bush to Hitler and suggested he was responsible for the attacks of 9/11. I realize there's a certain segment of our society who subscribes to that particular conspiracy theory...but a United States Congressman?

• An Army intelligence officer has listed "A Solution to the War in Iraq" on ebay. I wonder if he'd take a check?

• A new dating website recently popped up in the UK...for those with embarrassing illnesses such as irritable bowel syndrome, an illness afflicting the site's creator.

• The Pentagon is predicting five million children might turn to jihad if we don't get the situation in Iraq under control. The article I read quoted an interesting dialogue toward the end between a talk show host and President Bush. The host pointed out that children of extremists are being currently indoctrinated into jihad, and thus it won't matter whether we succeed or fail in Iraq. President Bush responded: "That's why I'm such a strong believer in advocating the march of democracy in the Middle East. And I fully understand that people call me a hopeless idealist...but I also think it's realistic to understand (that) unless we change the conditions of how people live, it's going to be hard to marginalize those who prey upon the young."