Has there been news today besides Gay Marriage / Passion?

[BR_Parkway]

I've been working on computer all day with CNN running in background and I swear they've flipped back and forth - it just dawned on me that I hadn't heard anything else, no shootings, no bombings.

[SharonAnn]

1. Kirkuk police station flattened. Putin fired cabinet yesterday.

Haiti falling appart and thousands preparing to take boats to flee to the US. Just some trivial stuff like that.

[molly]

2. Yes - in a nutshell

Greenspan, Condi, Hastert, umm - there's more.

[Kamika]

3. Yes

There's an arabic Big Brother starting soon

[Ediacara]

4. Port-au-Prince

Is close to being sacked by the rebel forces from northern Haiti. I don't give Aristide more than a week to live.

The poorest country in the western hemisphere is just getting poorer and going backwards another 50 years, nothing to see here....

[NicoleM]

9. Apparently

Sharpton is going to Haiti to try to mediate. They did pause PassionFest 2004 on CNN long enough to mention that.

[bif]

5. Not that you could tell in the Lounge

n/t

[RobertSeattle]

6. World almost hit by asteroid...

Just think...

Earth almost put on impact alert
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=383127

[BeyondGeography]

7. J-Lo is out, How-Lo Can You Go is in

eom

[DuctapeFatwa]

8. If Scott Peterson and Kobe see Passion together, will they get married?

Inquiring minds..

[KamaAina]

10. Kucinich second in HI caucus; garners 6 to 8 delegates

oh, right, Dennis is under a Media Invisibility SHield (TM). My bad.