Have you ever wondered what the dress requirements are for women attending Jerry Fallwells university? Well, Dave Miller just wrote in with the answer.

Speaking of insane religious extremists and how they feel compelled to dictate womens fashion, it looks like fundamentalists Shiites are gaining ground in Iraq.

Meanwhile, Paul Krugman keeps pushing the issue that we were deceived into war, even though most journalists, and most Americans, dont seem to care. Heres a clip:

After all, suppose that a politician or a journalist admits to himself that Mr. Bush bamboozled the nation into war. Well, launching a war on false pretenses is, to say the least, a breach of trust. So if you admit to yourself that such a thing happened, you have a moral obligation to demand accountability and to do so in the face not only of a powerful, ruthless political machine but in the face of a country not yet ready to believe that its leaders have exploited 9/11 for political gain. It’s a scary prospect.

There are some other skeptics out there though. Molly Ivins is questioning what she sees as the Iraqi gold rush. Heres a great quote:

So where’s a president like Franklin D. Roosevelt when we need him? “I don’t want to see a single war millionaire created in the United States as a result of this world disaster,” he said during World War II.

Thats one of the things that bothers me the most about the current situation in Iraq. People are getting rich. What makes it event worse is that some of the companies participating in the rebuilding operate offshore tax shelters to lessen the amount they pay to the US government (creating a situation where the middle class has to pick up the slack). Its absolutely reprehensible.

OK, I really need to pack now.

Ill see you in New York.

If I should die either on the plane this afternoon, or in some kind of chemical, biological or nuclear attack, please know that I love you all and will be haunting you until your last day on Earth.

I just got this from Dave Miller. He found it posted on Craigs List this morning, along with the concert tickets, used cars and roommate wanted ads.

How is it that summer vacation is nearly here and you are going to be out of my life for good? Being your teacher has been so hard. You have cursed me out, called one of the girl’s moms a “fat slut,” given me the middle finger, beat up J (he switched classes because of you), told me your mom was going to punch me in the face, threatened to take down a huge floor to ceiling pipe and hit us all with it, refused to do all of your math (and writing and reading and art),made the music teacher say “if he is in my class again I will quit”, almost made Ms. D quit because she would rather quit than be your para, stole my special marble behavior improvement system, stole my money, kicked P in the back, tried to hit your para with a door, called out the correct spelling of each word as I called it out for the spelling test (jerk), sharpened your pencil during read aloud with the express purpose of stabbing the kids, talked about all of the kids mothers and fathers, and, as they told me, you talked about their “whole families,” made F a bully for a few months, made W a bully (he is NOT your cousin, I checked), you wrote in crayon on the chalkboard and you put crayons in the heater, which was smelly. And your mom, who called J a pussy and threatened to make a really nice teacher lose her job, and never asked for your report card…..You just suck, it could have been a great school year but you ruined it. You are a bully, and you don’t deserve a free education. All of the kids are glad you left but when I see you in the hall I shudder to think what kind of person you will grow up to be. I can’t believe you are only eight years old.

I just got another note on the idea of evil things taking place beneath the black pyramid of Las Vegas moth-attracting Luxor.

I did a few of my own searches. “The Luxor is evil”, “portal to hell” + “vegas”, “evil luxor”, plus some others. I got nothing! I think what is going on here is that this is a covert portal to hell and we are being jammed by the dark one himself, Beelzebub. He probably has miles of rack-mounted servers screening for html requests and when he gets one that might expose his precious hole-to-hell, he somehow has all references deleted.

I like the idea of the devil having miles of servers constantly scouring the internet. How better to find people at their low points, when theyd be most susceptible to the temptation of evil? Hed know every fetish, every secret longing… Somewhere in this is the makings of a plot.