News Bits!

- Hastert knew about Foley three years ago, but forgot to write it down and it just slipped his mind and he's been very busy and stressed out at work and WILL YOU PEOPLE JUST GET OFF HIS BACK already?
- NYT food reporter R.W. Apple dies; readers of the Dining Out section are now deprived of that sweet little chuckle every time they see his byline.
- If Al Gore is right, which, of course, he is, Boston is going to turn into Charleston by the end of the century. We're going to stay down here. At least in Texas it's supposed to be hot.
- Austin named "most impatient city." Well, sure. Why else do you think we drink so much?
- Former Miss U.S.A./current national id socks Paris Hilton in the face.
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