The FBI is considering whether to relax its hiring rules over how often applicants could have used marijuana or other illegal drugs earlier in life. I guess it only makes sense that a person who can be president despite rocking the ganj can also be in the FBI.

Talk about irony. Rapper Ludacris might perform a homecoming concert at East Tennessee State University despite the city’s refusal to let him perform at Freedom Hall.

Looks like the focus is now on James Dobson. Senator Arlen Specter is planning to look into a statement by Dobson that he had “conversations”‘ with Karl Rove about the woman nominated to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and knows things about Miers “that I probably shouldn’t know.”

A powerful earthquake centered in the Hindu Kush mountains of Pakistan on Saturday morning sent tremors across South Asia, killing more than 18,000 people, including at least 1,600 in remote northern Pakistan. Was this even on the network news stations?