Aug. 9: We're voting now (almost)

*The 2007 presidential election?

How ridiculous is this?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118659950767691992.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_topbox

OK, anyone with the guts to change the current system,
which is preposterous, please step forward.
Actually, someone has: Former Florida Sen. Bob Graham,
who suggested rotating regional primaries in a column
in the New York Times earlier this week. Well, it
would be a start.

*Twist of Lyme
More from the “What President Bush hasn’t told us”
file:

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070809/a_bush09.art.htm

And he wants to know our secrets?


*More on Bonds and steroids
Great column by Christine Brennan of USA Today (and
one-time Miami Herald sportswriter):

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/brennan/2007-08-08-column-bonds_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

By the way, a Canadian columnist, Bob Elliott, wrote
today that "Even if he took steroids between 1999 and
2003, Bonds never 'broke the laws of baseball,' since
there was not a rule preventing players from taking
them."

Actually, that’s not true. Former Commissioner Fay
Vincent banned steroids in 1991, after the federal government banned them first. What is true is that there was no testing mechanism in place to catch
Bonds. But he still broke federal law if he took them
without a prescription, and that’s part of what the Feds are
investigating now.