News Bits!
-Nearly two dozen of Austin's finest civic leaders gathered together today to declare their opposition to November 8th's Prop. 2 measure, which would effectively define marriage as solely between "one man and one woman." Among many others, Mayor Will Wynn let it be known that "a fundamental cultural characteristic of Texas is that we mind our own business" - something Great Hills Baptist Church pastor Michael Lewis was unaware of when he decried the "loss of the family unit in America", blaming it all on the "homosexual minority."
-It turns out that Tom Delay was offered a chance to plead guilty to misdemeanor charges before his indictment. He'll now appear in court this Friday for the beginning of his hearings.
-Scientists may have succeeded in finding a way around the whole embryonic stem cell debate - the two proposed techniques avoid destructing the embryo in favor of an alternate approach that we won't even pretend to understand.
-The Powerball lottery's now at over $340 million - your odds in winning are approximately 1 in 146,107,962.
-Church's Chicken built a new store on 510 Oltorf ... in nine hours. There is something wholly unsettling about that.
-The new James Bond? Yawn.
-Lance donated $1.5 million to his Lance Armstrong Foundation cancer-advocacy charity.
-The whole hubbub over Miers' nomination to the Supreme Court still has us baffled.
-According to Austin Police, more drunks get caught behind the wheel after frequenting Dallas Night Club. In John Kelso's hilarious commentary he asks the following: "What kind of a genius would admit to a cop that he'd just been sucking down suds at a place called the Chuggin' Monkey? Why would you say that out loud to a cop? Was the Pukin' Gorilla closed? How about the Vomiting Giraffe?"
-Harold Pinter wins the Nobel Prize in Literature! The British playwright is most well known for "The Birthday Party", "The Homecoming" and "The Caretaker" - all of which later were adapted for the screen.
