You’ll notice that I try to get the Monday page to you by midday rather than late afternoon, because I figure by now you’re jonesing for some hard news:
- Moscow Metro hit by deadly suicide bombings — Just last night, I was remarking to my wife how it had been a really long time since there had been a successful terrorist attack in this West. I should have known better. Of course, this isn’t in the West, and it’s not al Qaeda, but still. Irrelevant thing that occurred to me reading about this: I didn’t know that Chechens were sufficiently screwed up in the head to go in for suicide bombing. I guess I just hadn’t been paying attention.
- Agencies Suspect Iran Is Planning More Atomic Sites — Just in case you didn’t have enough to worry about.
- 9 Tied to Militia Charged in Plot to Murder Officers — A little home-grown terrorism in the mix…
- Obama returns from Afghan trip — The president got on Hamid Karzai’s case while he was there.
- Mayoral candidates emptying war chests on ads — This might not seem front page-worthy, but I didn’t have anything else local. And this also gives me the chance to gripe, You can’t tell it by ME. While Tony Mizzell has taken out an ad on the blog, and I’ve had an inquiry this morning from another council candidate, I haven’t heard from the mayoral candidates…
- Fatty foods may cause cocaine-like addiction — According to Health.com, a new study in rats suggests that high-fat, high-calorie foods affect the brain in much the same way as cocaine and heroin.