News Bits!
- Don't fret if you get pulled over this week; you may be rewarded with baseball tickets for your good driving.
- A police officer was dragged and run over by a car she had pulled over on Riverside early Tuesday morning. She has already been treated and released from the hospital.
- Two local companies are thinking green for their office interior space.
- DeLay won the Republican primary, so now we can only hope that Lampson beats him come November.
- Congress renewed the Patriot Act, joy of joys. Bush can't wait to sign it.
- Bomb blasts in Varanasi (a holy city in India) have people worried more may be on the way.
- The UN is planning to take over peacekeeping in Darfur, and some Sudanese are not happy about the idea.
- It looks like something from Bring It On: a cheerleader who broke her neck couldn't hold back from cheering from her gurney.
- Adios, Barry Bonds' legacy: "I think Bonds is -- or was -- a human Walgreens, a grotesque and insulting example of better baseball through chemistry. And I think he should slither away, joining Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro in forced baseball exile."
- Mr. Trump, there's a time and place for everything . . . except joking about dating your own daughter. Ewwww.
- On another disturbing (and more serious) note, Teri Hatcher admits to Vanity Fair that she was sexually abused over 30 years ago.
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