Anna Nicole Smith is headed to the supreme court to get her ex-hubby's money. I've written about her before. Beautiful twenty-something stripper marries 89 year old oil gazillionnaire who dies a year later. Very shrewd business woman. But she's still fighting over the inheritance. The old geezers' son, it seems; wiped out all the bank accounts and destroyed any mention of the lady in the trust documents. I believe I had previously remarked about the lady's cleverness. Now I have to eat my words. The son is much more clever.

The administration is concerned about a growing problem of perception in the Islamic world. They've hired a new gal to set things straight. This is the same lady who made sure that George W never took the blame for anything. Wonder how long she'll last. Meanwhile the former head of the CIA's Voice of America program for Afghanistan quits his Afghan ministry post for getting in too many arguments. Perception problem? Really?! Who would've thought...

About 750,000 folks have been evacuated while Typhoon Damrey rips into southeast Asia. I wonder how the Chinese and Vietnamese are handling evacuation procedures. Anything we might learn? Probably not. I had to go to AlJazeera to find out that there even was a typhoon in Asia.