A coworker recommended I check out E! Online’s website for some really juicy and fun gossip. What a waste of time! There’s a lot of hemming and hawing about stars. My theory on Hollywood and sex is this: Everyone in Hollywood has sex like Clint Eastwood–Every Which Way But Loose.

A jury has sentenced Mohamed Rashed Daoud al-’Owhali to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his role in the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, it was announced Tuesday.

Mmkay, is this another episode of “How Messed Up is our Justice System?” Timothy McVeigh killed 168 and got the death penalty. Mohamed Rashed Daoud al-’Owhali killed 213, and injuring more than 4,500 other people. Yes, 4,500. But this guy gets life. I’m not trying to comment on capital punishment pro or con, but how can one guy kill 168 and get death, and another kill 213 and get life? What this is a comment on is how much variation juries can read into our laws.

I think there should be a minimum kill penalty imposed. I think if you kill, say, more than a dozen people in a terrorist attack, you automatically get capital punishment if you’re guilty.

This is an old link to an even older story about a skeleton in a trainyard in east Tennessee, but I thought it was appropriate as many of us think about our attitudes toward capital punishment in light of recent events. As documented elsewhere on this site, I am truly wrestling with this difficult subject.

Not only are the Dutch crazy in their own country but now they are intruding on the legislation of others. While I agree with the intent of the floating abortion clinic (that is, giving choice to women), I find it abhorrent that a group of people would foist their ideals on the chosen governance of another sovereign nation. The group has plans to do this in Africa as well. I think the Dutch have done enough damage in Africa already. I’m not surprised at all of this though when I look at the insanity of the abortion fight in this country.

I just re-read the article about the blind guy that climbed Mount Everest. I was wondering if the guild just pulled his ass up the same tiny hill a few hundred times, then said, “We’re at the top!” I mean, how would he know?

Then I thought of the George Carlin joke: If people climb Mt. Everest for the challenge, why do they go up the easy side?

Bureau of Prisons officials said McVeigh, a self-described agnostic, received the Catholic sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick by an unidentified prison chaplain. I think that the Catholic Church Jumped the Shark somewhere around the Noreiga incident, and this certainly doesn’t help.

Dubbya has been touting his Global Warming plan all this week. I hope someone told him that when people refer to “Global Warming” they acutally mean Anti-Global Warming.

Today is the 7th anniversary of OJ allegedly killing Nichol Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. This day kinda snuck up on me because I didn’t see any Hallmark cards the last time I was at Target. That’s how I keep up on holidays. Now if they could just remind me of my mom’s birthday…