SNIPPETS

SATURDAY,  MAY 23,  2009

MIAMI, May 23 (UPI) -- "Dr. Beach," a professor at Florida International University, has identified a 2-mile strip of palm-fringed sand in Hawaii as the best U.S. beach.
Stephen Leatherman, director of the Laboratory for Coastal Research, put Hanalei Bay in Kauai at the top of his 2009 Top 10 list. Leatherman, in a news release, said he considers 50 criteria when he puts the list together, as he has every year since 1991.

Can students get a Ph.D. in this?  Is federal aid available?

APPLE VALLEY, Minn., May 22 (UPI) -- Two giraffes, returning to the Minnesota Zoo for the first time in three years, remembered where they used to get fed by visitors, zoo staffers say.  Sweta and Zawadi were released last week into the Africa! Exhibit, a summer attraction first put together in 2006, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported. The half-brothers went straight to the platform that serves as a feeding station.

The real headline is that they also remember exactly what the CIA told Nancy Pelosi.

FRIDAY,  MAY 22,  2009

BEIRUT (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden came to Lebanon on Friday to reinforce U.S. support for the government ahead of key parliamentary elections that could see a pro-Western majority ousted by a coalition led by the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah.

We have no doubt that Joe's articulate, nuanced and sensitive presence will do our side a great deal of good.  Polls show the bad guys winning. 

Headline from the L.A. Times:  Alleged N.Y. terrorist plotters known as regular guys 

Aren't they always.  Just once I'd like to hear someone say, after major arrests, "Oh yeah, they were just the type."

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