Short Cuts

Ohmigod! The M Word! Kobe Bryant blithely admits to cheating on his fairly new wife (and baby, we might point out - adultery is not a single act of betrayal). Andrea Peyser at the NYPost boldly brings up the lack of morality in what he did. It was wrong regardless of the other charges against him. Getting some strange on the road is not okay. Not for nothing was he named after an expensive slab of meat.

News From The Underground: Two offbeat stories this morning catch the eye. The first, this dispatch concerning newly opened secret police files that claim tons of live Second World War munitions are buried in concrete bunkers beneath the runways of Schoenefeld airport in East Berlin. And the second, the discovery of a young Canadian athlete under the ice in the Italian Alps. The young man had been missing for fourteen years. Kind of makes one a touch more aware of the world around us.

Who You Callin' Fruitcake? When Cong. Pete Stark (D-Cal) threw a hissy fit last Friday and the Capitol Cops were called he had called Cong. Kenny Hulshof (R-Missouri) a "fruitcake" not once but three times. Hulshof later quoted Stark on the house floor, "You little fruitcake, you little fruitcake, I said you are a fruitcake." What Hulshof couldn't bring himself to add was that Stark also called him a name that rhymes with "lockpucker." Reporters, forgetting that before the Supreme Court ruled otherwise, these words used to be slurs and they called gay groups for comment. The activists defended Stark - who has a track-record of defending them - and ludicrously agreed with Stark that "fruitcake" meant nothing more than "nutty." They were not pressed to define the other word. Here, Fox News says no one is paying attention. We are. We notice hypocrisy right away.

Yellowcake Summer: Just to give our current media life a bit of perspective, it helps to remember our Chandra Summer a couple of years ago.. That was a far simpler story to consume and by fall it was all gone. This summer's Yellowcake non-scandal is too heavy to digest and by fall, well, you get the point.

-Your Turning Over to Tan The Other Side LComStaff