Now that Saddam has been rounded up, we can spend time on serious human rights issues. George Carlin apparently wasn't far off when he claimed that feminists wanted to change manhole covers to personhole covers, and a lady's man has become a person's person. Mary Valentich, is helping lead the charge to change the term 'alderman', which she says is a human rights violation, to 'councillor'. Scott Norvell quotes her as saying:

"This has to do with gender equality. It's an important issue -- it isn't just a name, it's a symptom of a male-dominated mentality."