This is more than likely a publicity ploy, but, okay, we’ll bite. Lauren Ashley, the reigning Miss Beverly Hills, has made news by taking a position on gay marriage that is well to the right of views expressed by former Miss California USA, Carrie Prejean. Ashley not only points to the biblical prohibition against homosexuality, she reminds us that the scriptural penalty for being gay is death.

Poor Arnold. Too little, too late.

You gotta admit the timeline is compelling. On Saturday, a Justice Dept. report was released that refuted Cheney’s claim that waterboarding forced Abu Zubaydah to give up Jose Padilla — Padilla was arrested months before Zubaydah was tortured. On Monday, Cheney experienced chest pains and was admitted to a hospital. Stress much?

I think any Republican that says you should start from scratch, I think that’s bogus talk, and that’s partisan talk.

— California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), quoted by McClatchy News Service, bucking congressional Republicans on health care reform.

He’s not nearly as cool as Coolio,
And not as Hispanic as Julio.
But when tasked at the CPACs
George Bush had to ask,
“Who the hell is Marco Rubio?”

Look, with regard to the stimulus, I think the evidence is pretty clear. You know, Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the stimulus did.

— Sen. Mitch McConnnell (R-KY), in an interview on Fox News Sunday.

Fox News’ parent company, News Corp, is bleeding money, and now company founder Rupert Murdoch has struck an investment deal with a Saudi prince who, like Saddam, has donated generously to Palestinian suiciders’ families. Under terms of the deal, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal will become News Corps’ fourth largest investor.

Not only was Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty reading from a teleprompter at CPAC on Friday when he promoted the hoax that Obama uses teleprompters more than other pols, Pawlenty’s attack against the president was quickly determined to be a lie.

“What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.”

Havelock Ellis (1859 – 1939), psychologist and sex researcher