I've been in Harrisburg at the Dover Panda Trial all week so I'm kind of behind the curve. I'll try to catch up.
Let's see.
First, we have Bill Bennett's final solution. Bennett, former secretary of education and current radio talk-show host and slot machine hobbyist, was talking about an assertion in a recent book that the drop in the crime rate can be attributted to an increase in abortions.
He continued, "But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down," Bennett said.
He went on to call that "an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky."
"Tricky."
That's one word for it.
And then you have Tom DeLay's troubles with the law. All I have to say about that is, couldn't have happened to a nicer person.
And finally, Mike "Brownie" Brown, former Arabian horse official and director of FEMA, appeared before a congressional committee to accept responsibility for the federal government's failures in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Just kidding.
He did a great job blaming everybody else.
Somewhere, Arabian horses are very, very scared.
