What Makes the News

Checking out this morning's Sunday Chronicle, here's what I know:

Amnesty International makes a semantic gaffe (the "gulag" comment) and yet Arlen Specter is leading the charge to see just how badly things have been going and how poorly the non-POWs have been treated.

Bolton fired a U.N. dipolmat who pushed for a diplomatic settling of the WMD issue in Iraq in 2002 which allowed an easier claim for the use of unnecessary war by the U.S.

Donald Rumsfeld states that he's concerned with how much China spends on defense. $78 billion in the last year of given statistics. That matches with $420 billion by the U.S., not including the war on "terror" (whatever that's beginning to mean now). Now, let's break that down per capita and, well, you get it too, don't you?

Even Britain is claiming that Bush is cheap when it comes to giving money to Africa. Now we have to even be called out by our only ally?

Scientists have definitively discovered the "gay gene" in flies that many have believed for years to have existed. By genetically altering a specific gene in flies, scientists have been able to get female flies to carry out actions normally carried out by "straight" males and vice versa. Actually, what the scientists didn't state in their report is that they still hold the flies accountable for their actions because the flies are supposed to know how to behave and therefore are to be punished by a giant scientist who hates the flies that act against how he feels by him smiting them with a large flyswatter. However, the scientists did report that the one flyswatting scientist loved those flies with all of his heart so much that he even gave his only begotton pet fly to die in order for all flies to make it to that big cobweb in the sky.