As we switch the subject to how nice it is that Saddam is in jail, we shouldn’t forget some of those old questions that remain unanswered.

Know what I mean?

Hopefully your answer isn’t similar to the one George Tenet gave a CIA official who warned that key components of Colin Powell’s UN WMD claims were based on false information.

Yeah, yeah.

Gary Bauer offered this take Terri Schiavo’s death:

It is entirely possible that in her death Terri Schiavo will become a symbol for many people about a disturbing trend in American culture.

I really hope that the behavior of Bauer and others becomes the symbol. It’s time thinking voters stood up for the culture of sanity.

A documentary and a petition drive in the UK seems to have finally awakened families and government to just how terrible school lunches have become.

Who was the guy at the front of the movement? Jamie Oliver, former host of the Naked Chef.

Oh, and what’s the western country with an even worse record when it comes to providing endless fried junk food to kids in school?

You probably know the answer to that one.

What’s it going to take to start to focus on youth nutrition in this country?

Anyone out there know Emeril?

(I meant that as a joke, but…)

Following a medical procedure that included the use of a computer chip, a paralyzed man is able to use his thoughts to make things happen:

A paralysed man in the US has become the first person to benefit from a brain chip that reads his mind.

Matthew Nagle, 25, was left paralyzed from the neck down and confined to a wheelchair after a knife attack in 2001.

The pioneering surgery at New England Sinai Hospital, Massachusetts, last summer means he can now control everyday objects by thought alone.

The brain chip reads his mind and sends the thoughts to a computer to decipher.

And I thought online photo sharing was a breakthrough.

Howard Fineman:

A new drama of survival has begun here – political, not physical; legal, not spiritual. The central character isn’t a woman in a hospital bed but a controversial Republican leader in the House of Representatives. Rep. Tom DeLay may not want to admit it to himself, but he’s fighting for his political life.

Add this to the fact that the GOP has seemingly split over recent issues ranging from the Schiavo case to Social Security and you’d likely have a feeling that the Republican ascension could be reaching its peak.

And it’s true that troubles like these will not help matters for the party in power. But the truth is that there has to be a strong and clear opposing view if any of these nicks and scrapes are to be a means to any happy ending.

Wow, if you thought that White House officials were getting bad intelligence during the first term, just take a look at Scott McClellan’s recent answer to a question about some folks with offending bumper stickers who were booted from a Bush event:

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