Three months from today I'll be a married schmuckraker..

But in the meantime ..Not much in the way of updates this past week.. though I haven't given you the schmuck of the world, I've read it..

News of the utomost importance to me.. and probably near meaningless to you..

Getting to be a pattern: Deliberations continue in California budget impasse..


Record: Fattest man in the world may have new record: Most weight lost..

History... err.. herstory: India chooses female for president!

Cheney assumed powers while President Bush had five polyps removed during a routine colon cancer test on Saturday.. He regained his conciousness.. and powers from the Vice President after he came out of the surgery..


Once again, "Pottermania" sweeps the nation..

Bush Set to Veto HHS-Labor-Education Appropriations Bill Due to Provision to Remove Mercury From Infant Vaccines.... The President campaigned in 2004 saying he would ban such additives..

In a related story.. California company offering $75,000 to any doctor pharmaceutical company CEO who publicly drinks a mixture of standard vaccine additives.. A prediction: That cash will get dusty..

Documents reveal converations between Tony Blair and Rupert Murdoch on the eve of the Iraq war..