Hangover

57 percent of Australians equate the threat of Islamic terrorism with the threat posed by the US and its imperial foreign policy.

In other news: Melting pop star Michael Jackson says the example of Nelson Mandela gives him "strength". Jackson alleged his legal problems were the result of a conspiracy to take over rights to the huge catalog of pop songs he owns the right to. Of course, it makes as much sense as the hysterical antics of the protestors on the hospice lawn in Florida.

I was thinking about another Florida case which also centered around the custody of someone essentially helpless: the Elian Gonzalez case. I'm willing to bet some of the same nutballs outside the hospice in Pinellas Park were also trying to keep the Cuban child from being seized and deported. The larger issue, of why wacky shit like this always seems to happen in Florida, is still a mystery.