SNIPPETS

OCTOBER 30,  2009

GURICEEL, Somalia, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Talk about your December-May marriage: A 112-year-old Somali man has taken a 17-year-old bride.  Ahmed Muhamed Dore, who has 13 children by five previous wives, said he would like to have more offspring with his new wife, Safia Abdulleh, the BBC reported Thursday.

I'll bet she did it for the life insurance.

OCTOBER 29,  2009

Our profound president, from the AP:   WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says only once since Jan. 20 has White House life annoyed him.  It was the Saturday in May when, trying to be a good husband, he kept a campaign promise to take his wife, Michelle, to New York after the election for one of their "date nights" - dinner and a Broadway play.  Conservative commentators and Republican officials criticized him for doing so.

"People made it into a political issue," Obama told The New York Times Magazine...

Our heart goes out to our offended president, and we promise not to criticize him ever again.  Who are we to question his social choices?