Sunday, 9-24-06: Isn't this fascinating! A US report says that the war in Iraq has created more terrorists. It's become the primary recruitment vehicle for new terrorists, and their numbers are increasing faster than the US and it's allies are eliminating the threat. Whoa, baby! The report was put together by all 16 US intelligence agencies, and issued by the National Intelligence Council. Rather than contributing to victory in the struggle against terrorism, the report says, the war in Iraq has made things worse for America. It's true that the US has damaged the leadership of Al Qaida, but in the meantime radical Islam was decentralizing. That's a big oops. Wars don't work. The Israeli war against Hezbollah only made them stronger, and the Iraq war is creating enemies.... Monday, 8-25-06: A recent Gallup poll found that 57% of Americans think the war in Iraq is going well. Keith Richards has said he's quitting drugs. He says the modern drugs just don't do it for him. A man in Serbia was taken to the hospital because he had sex with a porcupine. His doctor told him it would cure premature ejaculation. I saw a good bumper sticker. "Buckle up. It'll make it harder for the aliens to suck you out of your car." Ashton Kutcher was talking about answering the question, "How do I look?" from his wife Demi Moore. "If you answer too fast it means you didn't really look. It's too slow, it means you didn't like it. So it doesn't really matter what you say, you're just wrong. So I just drink a lot now, and it helps." Here's a funny bit about the coup in Thailand. The prime minister left just before it with so much luggage that he had to charter two planes. He had more than a hundred cases and trunks. In local news, a man was driving an all-terrrain vehicle in back country when he went off the road and plunged 30 feet onto refrigerator-siz boulders. Some bird hunters heard his cries for help and made their way to him. One stayed with him and one went for help. Philip Adamson is the hospital now being treated for back pain and other injuries. Tuesday, 8-26-06: Squirrel Awareness Week began Sunday. Gray squirrels are called "living fossils" because they haven't changed much in 35 million years. When frightened, they run back and forth to confuse predators. In local news, Beaverton police found seized property, including knives, marijuana pipes and about 150 drivers licences, in the personal locker of a former deputy chief. Chris Gibson has been storing stuff there for 13 years, and the stuff was found 2 months after he resigned. Wednesday, 8-27-06: Paris Hilton was charged yesterday with driving under the influence. She was arrested September 7th after being stopped in her Mercedes. The Hubble Space Telescope took two of the deepest views it's ever taken, and hundreds of early galaxies were discovered, dating back to less than a billion years after the big bang. They're smaller than today's giant galaxies, and bluer, from being ablaze with star birth. Friday, 9-29-06: An inmate serving a life sentence in Evansville, Indiana, for molesting and murdering a 10-year-old girl was forcibly tattooed across the forehead by other prisoners. "Katie's revenge," his forehead now says. Anthony Stockelman was removed from the general population for his own safety. Congress has passed a terror bill. Now the executive branch can indefinitely detain anyone. Foreigners will be tried by military commissions, which are closed. US officials are immunized from prosecution for torture. The capsule carrying the female space tourist touched down yesterday on the Kazakh steppe. Anousheh Ansari sat in a chair surrounded by high grass after exiting the capsule. An official handed her a huge bouquet of roses. A Spanish professor with a long beard and dark complexion was forced off a plane on the Spanish island of Mallorca by passengers who feared he was an Islamic terrorist. It started when 3 German passengers approached Pablo Vega and searched his carry-on luggage. In local news, a guy was awakened yesterday morning by his 3 pit bulls. He looked outside. He saw a pair of feet hanging outside his bathroom window downstairs. Airick Heater ran down the stairs, saw a strange man in the hall, and threw him into the bathroom. "I'm pretty much covered in tattoos," Heater said, "and I think that gave me a little leverage." He kept the robber in the bathroom till the police arrived. The pit bulls were curious about the man and tried to get him to pet them. "My pit bulls didn't do anything," Heater said. "I was like, Great guys, thanks for the help." Envitonmentalists accused India and China yesterday of doing almost nothing to stem the rapid decline of tigers in the wild. They'll be gone in a few years. Trade in poached tigers is flourishing. It turns out the Mona Lisa is pregnant. There's a fine gauzy veil around her shoulders that only pregnant women wore in her time. It wasn't seen before because the varnish darkened over time and hid it. It was found with an infrared scan. Saturday, 9-30-06: Republican representative Mark Foley, from Florida, abruptly resigned from Congress yesterday. He got caught sending sexually explicit emails to male pages, who are in their teens. Foley was the chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus. He sponsored legislation to protect children from exploitation by adults on the internet.