So now that I know she's been online, I'm not sure if I messed up, or am being deliberately ignored, or something went wrong, and I'm too milquetoast to pursue it. Darn.

-Well, Snopes tells us the German story is probably not true. Should've guessed.

-The Daily News features a story about an insurance exec who put down almost thirty grand at a strip club. That's a lot of singles. (Actually, I don't know what bills are used, because I don't frequent those kinds of establishments. But it sounds right.)

-The Forward shows a picture (sorry, not online) of a Kerry button done in Hebrew. And "Kerry" is spelled...yep, that way. They couldn't have used a kaf instead of a kuf?

-The new prime minister of India is a Sikh, the first non-Hindu to hold the position. (I wonder what religion Sonia Gandhi, who just turned it down, is.) Now, that's cool: The Sikhs are good people, and it's nice to see democracy at work. Plus, while the Congress Party is said to have the potential to roll back economic reforms (although Thomas Friedman doesn't think that's a given), this guy is said to be an "economic reformer." Now, Lenin was too, but I think they mean that in a good way.

What got to me is that he's Oxford-educated. It just seems like such a cliche- Indiana Jones, say, or James Bond will find himself in the most godforsaken part of Asia or Africa, and meet a tribal leader with perfect King's/Queen's English who went to Oxford or Cambridge or the like. Sometimes the guy is a "noble savage," sometimes he's just savage, and sometimes he's just noble. Now, I'm sure this guy earned a solid degree. But seeing it in the paper just cracked me up over breakfast this morning.

National Review, however, traces third world (particularly Indian) socialism to Oxbridge educations. Well, we'll see.

-This letter really is a shock back to reality on the sheitel issue.

-She's three and doesn't know where her father is. She does know her name (OK), and that she's from Brooklyn (cool), and that she's "Puerto Rican" (ah, the important things in multicultural America).

-"So we don't follow our religion!" say the elected Catholic Democrats. "That doesn't give the leaders of our professed religion the right to tell us we're wrong!" Oh, so stupid. And so typical.