Is The U.S. One Big Nut Hut Or What?

The DF&C's computer coughed up a possibly fatal hairball over the weekend, so she's kind out out of it when it comes to keeping up with the news. No matter, I was able to glean the following:

Commerce Secretary-designate Judd Gregg voted several times to eliminate the department that he now wants to head.

President Obama has vowed to change the culture of Washington, including behind-the-scenes deal making, but that is exactly what cinched the Gregg deal.

Karl Rove will cooperate with a federal investigation.

The zillions of dollars in taxpayer money that was poured into banks to spur lending has had the opposite effect.

Joe the Unlicensed Plumber is advising the Republicans on strategy.

Speaking of the GOPs, their new national chairman claims that government never created a job.

The peanut butter is okay to eat.

The mother of a woman who gave birth to octuplets says her daughter already has six children and is undergoing fertility treatments.

Emma Watson is not a sex symbol.

Both the president and greatest Olympic swimmer of all time have smoked marijuana, which destroys peoples' lives and makes them unproductive, so they should be busted.

Efforts to turn Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth into an opera are going poorly.

Tom Daschle withdrew from consideration as Health and Human Services secretary because he didn't want his tax problems to be a distraction, but Sarah Palin had the same problem and that didn't stop her.

Rod Blagojevich says his ouster was a hijacking.

The Steelers' Super Bowl victory was actually an upset because Pittsburgh has been falling apart for the last 50 years while Phoenix has been one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas.

That's it for now. Time to take my meds.