Yep, here we go, sports fans, the very thing we feared so bad, seems like The Town Drunk is doing acid now...

So! The latest polls are out, and gee, willikers, Batman! Looks like the entire Rethug deal is on the skids with the folks at long last!...

You can tell a lot about any organization just by paying close attention to its actual priorities, rather than the priorities it announces to the public at press conferences.  Oddly, although we can't stop illegal immigration, or check shipping containers entering the country through the ports, we can assign who-knows how much manpower and effort to keeping out prescription drugs imported from Canada.

So, do you see anything wrong with having the US's immigration agency described as "trying to handle too many cases with too few employees," at the same time that our customs and border patrol agency is snooping through, and confiscating, packages of prescription drugs mailed from foreign countries to patients in the U.S.?

As most WTW people have long suspected, the Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that Ohio cheated in doing its recount after the 2004 presidential election.

Editor & Publisher reports the results of a new Gallup poll conducted March 13-16:

1. 55% say Bush personally is doing a poor job of protecting the environment; 33% say a good job.

2. 62% say the government is doing too little to protect the environment, 33% say it's doing about the right amount, and 4% say the government is doing too much.

The U.S. announced today that it will not seek a seat on the UN's revamped Human Rights Council.

Well, in between Katie Couric heading for Cronkite's roost, and the usual stuff today, no doubt, we all heard the news: Bush hisself is the prime leaker!...

Just today the Pentagon acknowledge that, according to The Jackson Tribune "some information stored in a database of possible terrorist threats should not have been kept there."

Here in the land of spin, I've heard all kinds of approbation r.e. France and the French refusal to "admit reality" by knuckling under to Chirac's new law removing job protections from young workers.

The NY Times has been relentlessly critical of the French who are protesting. The Concord (NH) Monitor headlined: "The French in denial," and stated that:

To anyone who cares about Europe's future, the French demonstrations and street riots protesting the government's new labor law must be profoundly disturbing.....Hardly anyone wants to surrender the benefits and protections of today's generous welfare state, but the fierce attachment to these costly and self-defeating programs prevents Europe from preparing for a future that, though it may be deplored, is inevitable.

But they didn't tell you that France--supposedly the Socialistic demon from hell, addicted to pampering, lengthy vacations, and lifelong job security, and unable to compete with real go-getters like the U.S.......somehow manages to be more productive than we are.

So Tom Delay announces his intent to resign from Congress.  Effective at some undetermined time before mid-June.

In many ways, he's been saying good-by for some time, starting with when he got indicted in Texas, and continuing through his loss of House support that forced him to step down as House majority leader.  You could make an argument that anyone that unethical and that vicious has probably been saying good-by since the day he arrived, because those traits will eventually do you in.

What we won't know for some time is whether this is good-by to DeLay or good-by to what DeLay represents.

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