Weekend Update - Sorry Edition

• I did something really silly a couple months ago. Out of curiosity I signed up on this Facebook thing. I looked at it once, mind you, but now I get these E-mail notices every day that new people are becoming my "friend." People at work, people off the street, people I've never heard of before, I think. Pretty scary, and I wish it would stop, but I'm afraid of going back in and ending it all. Christ, I wouldn't want to offend anyone. And that's assuming I haven't already offended all those I've ignored to date, which I'm sure I have. So if you're thinking of becoming my newest Facebook "friend," sorry, please skip it. Get back to googling porn like you're suppose to. But Mark Morford gives me hope. Apparently you're limited to 5,000 friends on Facebook. He's made it, and I'm unfortunately on my way.


• Thank God for god, without whom we'd have no one to ask for positive reinforcement and the all important "forgiveness." And the old imaginary diety is coming through once again for admitted adulterer playboy politician Mark Sanford, who just can't seem to shut the hell up. "It is true that I did wrong and failed at the largest of levels, but equally true is the fact that God can make good of our respective wrongs in life." Somehow comforting, ain't it?


• Science News: Scientists have solved an Artic mystery. The Great Alaskan Blob is NOT Sarah Palin. (Okay, sorry, cheap joke, but it's an interesting story.)


• The hearings were pure “Alice in Wonderland.” Reality was turned upside down. Southern senators who relate every question to race, ethnicity and gender just assumed that their unreconstructed obsessions are America’s and that the country would find them riveting. Frank Rich comments on the Sonia Sotomayor hearings.


• It is absolutely, without argument, TIME (past time) to bring our troops home from the insanity of Afghanistan. Robert Gates wants one more year. Somewhere, the ghost of Robert McNamara is laughing.


• And finally, with apology, I give you this one: Those purchasing a vehicle at Max Motors in Missouri will receive an AK-47 assault rifle with their purchase during the month of August. Now really, ain't that America? Aim, and squeeze here.