News Tidbits

• The press is rife with speculation concerning Condi’s love life. Bushie is jealous, no doubt.

• Pope Benedict XVI slams Islam, quoting a 14th-century Byzantine emperor who called the religion “evil and inhuman”.

• Acknowledging higher rates of certain ailments than those seen in veterans of other wars, a study dismisses the notion of one all-encompassing “Gulf War Syndrome”:
  "Veterans of the brief campaign do suffer from an array of very real problems. Yet there is no one complex of symptoms to suggest those veterans, who number almost 30 percent of all those who served, suffered or still suffer from a single identifiable syndrome…"