Various Things

1. So Whitney Houston is divorcing Bobby Brown. This is good news for Osama bin Laden, who was reported to be obsessed with her. I wonder if this is maybe all just part of a CIA plot to send in Whitney as an undercover agent to join Osama's harem and reveal his hiding place.

2. Britney Spears's second child came in two days under the one-year mark to barely qualify as an Irish twin. For the record, her hubby Kevin Federline has fathered children in 2002, 2004, 2005, and now 2006. One remarkable thing I didn't know before is that the mother of K-Fed's earlier children, Shar Jackson, had two more children herself before getting together with Federline. Quite the fertile bunch! Jackson's first kid, Donnie, was born in 1991, when she was about 15. For those of you doing the math, that means that if Donnie had followed in his mother's footsteps, the now 30-year-old Shar Jackson could have been a grandmother!

3. Today in BoingBoing, Xeni Jardin seems surprised to discover that the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment are not absolute. Oh well, with a lack of basic understanding of the Constitution like that it's a good thing she doesn't write for a site obsessed with constitutional freedoms and their real or perceived infringements or anything. Or, um, maybe she does.

4. Just earlier this month I wrote about the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. Warren Jeffs' replacement on the updated list is Ralph "Bucky" Phillips, who was put on the list on September 7 and was captured the very next day. I wonder who'll take that spot on the list next.

5. With the tragic shootings today at Dawson College in Montreal, I poked around on Wikipedia and noted that all four people listed as "Canadian Mass Murderers" committed their crimes in Quebec. Odd.