Miscellaneous headlines

Good News: the unknown marine who was the hero rescuer at ground zero reveals his identity....
Bad News: Whoops...hollywood assumed he was white...

Good news: My new Dell computer works great.
Bad News: Dell laptops are being recalled due to exploding batteries

Good News:One of the links at the left is to writer/artist Michael O'Brien. I get his newsletter, which is usually about religion and art. (He paints modern icons).
Bad News:It seems that his website was attacked by Isalmofascists...
"...A few weeks ago, you may have noticed that the studio was off-line for a
day or so, and that when you tried to access it an inflammatory image
appeared on your screen. For those of you who did not see it, the image was an
Islamic military warrior with accompanying symbolism and malevolent
message, plus an arrogant boast by the hacker, a man somewhere in the
Middle East who seemed rather proud of his handiwork. I thought the
sound effects of machine-gun fire were a bit melodramatic. ..."

Good news: Peaceful Iraqi demonstration in Ohio
Bad news: They were harassed by Christian fundamentalists.
The Chaldeans I spoke with were more than a little amused that some of them escaped Saddam and Al Qaeda only to come to a Catholic event in America and have their faith questioned by a bunch of fundamentalists. This coupled with the fact that the Chaldean’s faith was brought to their land by the Apostles and these fundamentalists were inspired by the likes of 19th and 20^th century prophets of anger, John Darby and Ian Paisley.

Good news: Podhoretz notes that the Bush doctrine is not dead, and compares it to the Truman doctrine...
Bad News: The Corner comments:I don't think the essay fully addresses the challenge the Bush doctrine faces from Islamic radicals winning power at the ballot box...well, maybe Lowry should read about the Vatican and US paying for the defeat of communist in the 1948 election in Italy, or the Civil war in Greece...