It’s time to tell your congressman, Rep. James Sensenbrenner (chair of the House Judiciary Committee) to keep model rockets legal.

Oh, and Frank, even though you can’t blog, you might consider giving your dad a call yourself…

Dave Trowbridge has the story of his marriage proposal–in his church.

Don’t miss this year’s NEC (that’s the Nigerian Email Conference).

[Via Paul Hsieh]

Carl Limbacher and Newsmax have an interesting list of questions that Barbara Walters should–but certainly won’t–ask Hillary in her upcoming interview.

A teenage girl died tragically avoiding cigarette smoke.

I guess second-hand smoke can be deadly.

Some on the left have commented sarcastically that the Bush administration plans a state-run health-care system for Iraq, though they won’t allow one here.

Now, it appears that even though Americans aren’t allowed to have “assault weapons” (at least until the prohibition sunsets next year), the Iraqis will be allowed to keep theirs.

A lot of people from all sides of the political spectrum have pointed out Bob Geldof’s apparent apostasy, in which he praised George Bush, and said that when it came to aiding Africa, Bill Clinton did, errmmm…nothing. Actually he used a much cruder phrase than that, but this is a family blog. Follow the link, and you can read it yourself.

What I found surprising is that no one has pointed out the most egregious example of Clinton being all hat and no cattle when it comes to Africa. President Bush is being praised by Mr. Geldof for pledging fifteen million dollars to AIDS relief. Remember Bill Clinton’s trip to Africa in the spring of 1998, on which he took seemingly half of his administration, including Betty Currie (after pressuring her to perjure herself on his behalf)? The GAO estimated that it cost over forty million dollars.

Imagine how much more usefully that money could have been spent for Africans than on an African junket for his staff and photo ops for a man who was in the process of trying to distract the country from his intern and perjury problems. But apparently poor Mr. Geldof hasn’t learned that Mr. Clinton is above criticism, particularly when it comes to Africa–he is, after all, the first “black President.”

[Update at 8:15 PM PDT]

D’oh!!!!

A commenter points out that Bush pledged fifteen billion dollars, not fifteen million. Big deal–I was within three orders of magnitude.

My point still stands. Clinton was all show, and no go. Geldof was right.

Here’s a pretty nifty piece of software from IBM.

I tried it with “luxury yacht.” If it had been my code, I would have programmed it so that if it saw those words together, it would come out “throatwarbler mangrove.”

Just in case you need another reason to dislike Barbra Streisand, check this out. She’s suing an aerial photographer for fifty million dollars, because he took pictures of her estate in the process of doing a coastal survey. I hope the suit gets tossed.

According to Andrew Lloyd, the X-Prize and private space will be the subject of today’s Science Friday, which starts in a few minutes (2 PM EDT).