A School Opens in the USA, Yet the Media Focuses on Republican Scandals. Typical.

Weekend Edition

Foley's excuse, Rev. Macaca, admits he'd done something wrong, but he's not quite sure what it was. He was just a little bit too high. Damn.

The Great-Centrist-Hope threatens to kill himself if Democrats win the election, yet fails to support a Republican, leaving him hanging with a sign and an empty promise... Just because he's involved with the Foley cover-up.

We were about to settle down and reflect on the Republican Scandal of the Week, involving a corrupt family in a Republican stronghold, a whistle-blowing campaign staffer, Serbians, the Russian mob, Kuwaiti businessmen, money laundering, and real estate.

But then, of course, another day, another October surprise: the FBI searches the office of a California Republican congressional candidate to find the source of a letter threatening immigrants with possible deportation if they try to vote. The letter was written in Spanish, which is very considerate.

But the FBI can't leave those poor Republicans alone for a second. Here's another investigation. This time the man received classified information, put it in an ad, and then denied knowing it was illegally obtained, saying "he did not know how the information was obtained, but that if it was done illegally, whoever did it should be held responsible." Yea...

With all these FBI investigations and cover-ups and scandals and the terrible month in Iraq, one has to ask oneself, why doesn't the media report on the good things that happened last week? I'm sure somewhere in the US there was a school opening, right? And what about the pseudo punk winning Project Runway? And the Baltimore Flugtag? IE7? Keith Urban is in rehab, shouldn't that be at the top of the news? Isn't it time for Janet Jackson to expose another nipple?