US forces nabbed some “top Al Qaeda operative.” Weird. I thought we caught all those “top” guys ages ago.

Former CIA Director George Tenet’s slamming the Bush administration, saying they made him a scapegoat for the crappy intelligence before invading Iraq. “Tenet said President Bush had made up his mind to invade Iraq long before the CIA director made his infamous Oval Office remark that it was a “slam-dunk” case that Saddam Hussein’s government had banned weapons.”

New Hampshire approves civil unions; Episcopal bishop V. Gene Robinson plans to wed longtime partner.

Physicist Stephen Hawking tries zero gravity.

There’s a new Republican candidate for President, and he’s billing himself as a “true Reagan conservative.”

Researchers may have figured out why the United States’ honeybee population is disappearing.

The Senate sends the war funding bill—which includes a troop withdrawal plan—to Bush’s office, where he’s expected to throw a hissyfit, veto it, and then cry.

Flash mob on Alberta last night? “Many people were attending the popular ‘Last Thursday’ arts event in the neighborhood amid warm spring weather, said Sgt. Brian Schmautz, a Portland Police Bureau spokesman. By 10 p.m., some had too much alcohol, he said, while others seemed to be anarchist types.” And you know what they say about warm weather, alcohol and anarchists!