This had me in stiches for a half an hour: Parade of Unfortunate Star Wars Costumes.
(Via Random Nuclear Strikes.)

Children are becoming an endangered species in San Francisco.

In an effort to cash in on people's addiction, states are sending huge tax bills to smokers who purchase online.

Perhaps hoping to reset the clock, John Kerry has once again pledged to release all of his military records. He made a similar promise back in January.

Another neo-con giving up on the Dems.

"The Democrats' dependence on blacks for votes means that they must keep blacks dependent on them." -- Thomas Sowell.

Sex offenders are getting free Viagra, and you're paying for it.

"It just keeps getting worse in Iraq. The death toll is rising. Tension is growing between Shiites and Sunnis. Is the country sliding toward civil war?" -- CBS News' Bob Schieffer with their lead story of the day on Thursday Evening.

"In speech after speech at the meeting, at a Baghdad social club, delegates called on fellow Sunnis to cast aside doubts and throw themselves into politics to try to weigh in on the writing of a constitution, which is under way in a Shiite-controlled committee in the National Assembly. Even the Association of Muslim Scholars, a leading voice in the Sunni election boycott, signed on as one of the conference's organizers." -- New York Times, Sunday May 22, 2005, on Iraqi Sunni's joining with Shiites to help write their Constitution.