News Bits!

-Chaos continues to reign supreme in Paris, where over 3,000 vehicles and dozens of businesses have been destroyed. All of this is over the accidental death of two teenage boys, who had been hiding from the police.

-Harry Potter has the "potential to frighten some children"

-They caught that death-row inmate who'd escaped from Houston outside a liquor store in Louisiana - trashed.

-Cheney wants desperately to retain the power to torture terror suspects - especially in the CIA's super-secret "black sites" scattered across Eastern Europe

-Upwards of 3,000 people showed up to protest the dozen or so Ku Klux Klan members outside City Hall plaza. Except Austin police kept everyone a cool three blocks away.

-Several US Senators are questioning whether the FBI is taking the Patriot Act a little too far

-Pah! Female sex hormones make women better drivers than men

-Britain plans to launch a new type of safer cigarette - "Theoretically the risk is less ...but you still die."

-Pirates armed with machine guns and grenades try to hijack a cruise ship near Somalia!

-PerezHilton tells us that Jake and Kirsten have split up

-Charles and Camilla continue their tour of the States, quickly becoming the Most Awkward English Tourists Ever

-The White Stripes hawk Coca-Cola