Tuesday Update

• Will it be drugs? Will it be gays? Will it be an unwieldy sex scandal featuring seedy hotels, bad cologne and grossly detailed text messages you never want to read? How about another "family values"' congressman busted for cruising gay chat rooms or hitting on young male pages in the congressional bathroom? That's always heartwarming. Of one thing you can be absolutely certain: whenever self-righteous Christians make the news, it's going to be... embarrassing. Sad. Sickening. Disingenuous. A little dangerous. A lot pitiable. What is this? Just Mark Morford reporting on what's happening in Uganda.


• Rudy Giuliani once recalled that awful day in 2001 and how stunned he was as he watched someone jump from the burning north tower. Spontaneously, he said, he grabbed the arm of a man standing beside him and said, “Bernie, thank God George Bush is our president.” But something happened to Rudy since then. Something sinister and strange.


• Sarah Palin has just signed a multi-year deal with FOX News to be a commentator. I'd have a joke for that, but I'm not that funny.


• Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid added his name to the wish-I-hadn't-said-that group the other day. In Harry's defense Brent Budowsky offers this: Click Here.


• Having a black President seems to bring the best out in a lot of people. Former Governor Rod Blagojevich called himself "stupid" 16 times in a few minutes while explaining to the press that he was not "blacker than President Obama." (Sigh)


• You want frys with that? A study published in the International Journal of Food Microbiology revealed there is actual fecal matter lurking in fast food soda. Mother Jones reports.


• For Fox News, religion is easy: Christianity is right and good and must be defended from its relentless persecutors, and other faiths are dangerous, inadequate, or funny. For example, last weekend Fox News analyst and putative paragon of "straight news" Brit Hume counseled Tiger Woods to ditch Buddhism in favor of Christianity as his best hope for a "total recovery" from the scandal surrounding his marital infidelities. Oh Brother.