The Short List — Mon., June 25
June 25th, 2007 by Joe Bardi in The Morning PapersOur issues this week: Can you name the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? Can you afford a new home? Do you trust the V.P.? Is Paris a new woman? Stay tuned …
- The Washington Post delves deep into the life and times of Dick Cheney.
- Al-Qaeda bombs Baghdad’s Mansour Hotel, home to western press agencies, the Chinese embassy and a group of al-Qaeda-opposed Sheiks having a tribal conference.
- Sniff. Sniff. It smells like Pasco is on fire.
- The housing market isn’t exactly roaring back to life. A few more years and home ownership might be affordable again.
- Saddam behind 9/11? A recent Newsweek poll shows how much the American public has dumbed down in the last six years.
- Supreme Court rules against Bong Hits 4 Jesus. The Sups remain divided on Crack Pipes 4 Buddha.
- Tampa Taxi Blog gets a smart new look.
- Paris is out tomorrow.
June 25th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
A 2003 Washington Post poll found that seven in 10 Americans thought Hussein was behind/involved in 9/11, so, sadly, the number you linked to make actually show an improvement in our mental faculties.
June 26th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
True. But you’d think that in the 4 years since that last poll, a few more people would have gotten word of Saddam’s innocence in this matter.
Let’s see: the Bushies have claimed that Saddam a) was linked to 9/11 (false) and b) had WMD (also false). This looks like the beginning of a pattern. What else do we all *know* about Saddam that is actually false?
You want to bet it’s a whole litany of items?