Sounds Crazy... But True?: The weirdest story I've read all day is about yesterday's Senate hearing on lobbyist Jack Abrahamoff... (though I hesitate putting it up after Milbank's piece last Friday on the Conyers hearing).

From NC, a judge (whose courtroom I have actually observed for a pre-law class) said you can't swear on the Quran. Maybe Google's new search engine can help, since Google is trying to make its search engine capable of sorting by truth... theoretically that would be phenomenal, but the truth according to who?? GoogleTruth might also have been helpful in ranking these hard-to-believe pieces: Berlusconi used his "playboy charms" on Finnish president... according to Berlusconi. Zimbabwe is destroying vegetable gardens allegedly because they damage the environment. Also, in Ethipia, lions rescued a girl by fighting off her kidnappers.

David Sedaris, author of the very hilarious Me Talk Pretty One Day, doesn't seem to be holding back the truth on the tip bucket he puts out at his readings: "People will ask, 'Is that your tip bucket,' and I'll say, 'Yeah.' Then they say, 'Anyway, if you could make this out to Sheila.' Like, would you go to Starbucks and say, 'Is this your tip bucket? OK, anyway ...' Someone a couple of days ago told me that I make enough money from royalties, and I told her, 'It's not your place to tell me how much money I need. I will tell you when I have enough money.'"