Lynn Sweet in the Chicago Sun-Times had an interesting thing or two to say about Barack Obama’s shirtless photo in the recent edition of People magazine.
A barechested Obama, poised to announce a 2008 presidential run, is wearing black board shorts and shares the “Beach Babes” pages with a bevy of beautiful people — Hugh Jackman, Penelope Cruz, Jessica Alba and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Not only that, apparently Chicagoans are gay for him:
My colleague Neil Steinberg did [follow him into a locker room] and reported on Jan. 6, 2006, that the undressed Obama …

Frank Press, geologist and former president of the National Acadamy of Sciences, has released a book that includes a look at where the ever-moving continents are headed. For a better picture of it, click on the link I just provided and check out the multimedia. Better yet, click here.
Some of the features predicted include:

The Gulf of California will split open and Los Angeles will head north toward San Francisco. Eventually, in about 50 million years, it will be headed up to Alaska.
The Mediterranean Sea will shrink and shrink.
Africa …

Sure, Democrats, it’s easy when you vote on really obvious stuff.
The first item on the House Democrats’ “100 hours” legislative agenda, a measure to implement some of the recommendations of the 9/11 commission, passed on Tuesday evening.
The vote was 299-128.
Nearly 70 Republicans crossed party lines to vote for the package. It mandates full inspection of air and sea cargo entering the United States and shifts more homeland security funding to communities with high-risk terror targets.
The reason 70 Republicans crossed party lines is because it’s a bill that actually makes sense. …