Several little news items merited notice, today.
 
Iran tested missiles shortly after announcing a second enrichment facility. Those boys aren't going away.
  
Die Hexe Angie ist Kanzler noch einmal (loose translation: the witch, Angela Merkel, is Chancellor of Germany one more time). I don't care much. I didn't like Steinmeier any better.
 
Portugal also held elections but nobody outside their nation, including me, cared (or even knew). Seems the socialists won again.
 
Roman Polanski finally got arrested for screwing a 13 year old in the 70s. Angelica Huston, who was there at the time, said that she looked 25. The alleged victim is one of the people calling for this all to be thrown out. I don't know what happened. I wasn't there. On the surface, it sounds silly.
 
Former Honduran leader Jose Manuel Zelaya has holed himself up in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa saying he returned for "homeland, restitution or death." Right now, the latter is looking like a good bet.
 
Michael Vick played his first downs for the Eagles. As expected, he sucked. I still hope he wins big in the end. I really think far less fuss would have been made over him if he had killed a few people instead of a few dogs.
 
William Safire died. I liked him when I was young, conservative, and everything was black and white. I haven't even thought of him for 20 years, and I doubt I'd think well of him if I revisited his work, so maybe it's best that I just learn of his death and smile at the memory of someone I used to like.
 
Bill Clinton says the "vast right wing conspiracy" is alive and well. I see nothing conspiratorial about it, myself. It's just a huge group of right wing nuts in the US who worship Reagan and small government. It's getting smaller each year, thankfully. It's reasonable to hope they die out soon as many don't have health care (and think any effort to provide it for them will destroy civilization as they know it).
 
Robert Mugabe talked to Christiane Amanpour and, unsurprisingly, said nothing worth a damn.
 
Lewis Hamilton kicked ass in Singapore. He's out of it this year, but next year looks good.