Yeah. What He Said.

New Orleans -- Two Years After Katrina

Any part of any American city that:

1. Lies directly on the coastline
2. Lies in a hurricane threat zone
3. Is 10 feet below sea level

should be condemned--marked as off limits to human habitation.


And the most important lesson learned from the disaster that was Katrina?

We need lots of busses.

Puleeeeeeeeeez!

Would Americans please stop swooning over the fact that it's the 10th anniversary of the death of Diana Spencer? Please?

Don't you think we've heard enough about the death of the Royal Skank?

Besides, it reflects poorly on modern Americans to fawn all over Diana and her two twerp puppies after so many Americans died in the Revolutionary War to throw off tyrants like King George III.

I know it's been over 200 years, but it's too soon to forget.

Owen Wilson Hospitalized -- Rumored Suicide Attempt

From the Sydney Morning Herald:

Actor Owen Wilson is in a California hospital being treated for a suspected suicide attempt, according to reports.

Gossip website PerezHilton.com quoted National Enquirer editor-in-chief David Perel: "Owen Wilson has now been transferred from St. John's to another Los Angeles area hospital. His brothers Andrew and Luke are with him.

"Andrew found him after the suicide attempt and called an ambulance. Both of Owen's wrists were slashed superficially and Owen had taken an overdose of pills.

"Owen was found with a nearly empty bottle of pills next to him. He was at his house in Santa Monica."

Another gossip website TMZ.com said it had confirmed that a call to Santa Monica police overnight was for Wilson, who starred in Zoolander and Wedding Crashers.

The department would not reveal the subject of a media release but said the person was taken to hospital for treatment.

That's a shame. He has everything going for him, and he's one of the funniest bastards I've ever seen on film.

Breaking News -- AGAG Resigns!

From the New York Times:

WACO, Tex., Aug. 27 — ­ Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by controversy and accusations of perjury before Congress, has resigned. A senior administration official said he would announce the decision later this morning in Washington.

Mr. Gonzales, who had rebuffed calls for his resignation, submitted his to President Bush by telephone on Friday, the official said. His decision was not immediately
announced, the official added, until after the president invited him and his wife to lunch at his ranch near here.

Mr. Bush has not yet chosen a replacement but will not leave the position open long, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the Attorney General's resignation had not yet been made public.

Mr. Bush had repeatedly stood by Mr. Gonzales, an old friend and colleague from Texas, even as he faced increasing scrutiny for his leadership of the Justice Department, including his role in the dismissals of nine United States attorneys late last year and questions about whether he testified truthfully about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs.

"We're watching a political exercise," Mr. Bush said at a news conference this month, dismissing accusations that the Attorney General had stonewalled or misled a congressional inquiry. "I mean, this is a man who has testified, he's sent thousands of papers up there. There's no proof of wrong."

Mr. Gonzales's resignation is the latest in a series of high-level departures that has reshaped the end of Mr. Bush's second term. Karl Rove, another of Mr. Bush's close circle of aides from Texas, stepped down two weeks ago.

The official said that the decision was Mr. Gonzales's and that the president accepted it grudgingly. At the same time, the official acknowledged that the turmoil over his tenure as Attorney General had made continuing difficult.

Well, I guess it was to be expected. His continued presence in the cabinet must have been proving too much of a distraction for the administration. On the other hand, when Karl Rove resigned, it was widely reported that anyone in the cabinet who didn't resign before a certain date in September would be "stuck" in their position until the end or their term.

But the Gonzales resignation begs the further question:

Who in the hell are the Congressional Democrats gonna pick on now?