Headlines

It's not by choice that I am often confronted with MSNBC.com headlines. It's a feature of the default sign-out page for Hotmail, which I'm told only out of touch technological dinosaurs such as myself still use. But ANYWAY, you might think that given that the chief justice of the Supreme Court died AND 10,000 people are predicted killed by a hurricane AND we're involved in an ill-advised land war with murky objectives AND poverty just rose for the fourth straight year, we wouldn't have to hear any more about Natalee Holloway. But MSNBC is still flying that flag, right below Indonesian jet crash and Jerry Rice retiring. It just makes a person...mad.

However, I did learn that, in a real sign of progress, Iraq has resumed state executions for the first time since the deposing of Saddam (though this particular fact really denigrates the gangland-style executions that have been going on the streets). Bush should be pleased, as executing prisoners seemed to be the only function of government he excelled at.