Friday Quick Hits

I won 6th place in a Texas Hold'em tournament the other night. Not bad for a first-timer.

I've read a bunch of good columns lately on both sides. Here's the Roundup: Mike Adams has a great one about intolerance, David Model puts forth a decent argument about Bush being responsible for genocide, TIME takes a look at the new Chief of Staff's plan to dig Bush out of a ratings hole, and John Stossel explains why greed is good.

There's great news for Kenton County. Governor Fletcher is giving a fat check to the N. Kentucky County. $100,000 is going to Covington for renovating seven buildings downtown, $39,500 will go towards recreational trails for the Behringer Crawford Museum, and $6,332 will be received by Tailor mill with the purpose of cleaning up their cemeteries.

The greatest video game ever has a movie coming out about what happened after it ended: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. See the trailers here. Yes, I'm drooling.

Gen. Rick Lynch "see[s] us moving away from civil war [in Iraq]." The Baghdad violence, he said, was "on the downside." A 2.7% pay increase is also being urged by a House subcommittee beginning the 2007 fiscal year. No complaints here.

1,102 sex offenders were nabbed in a week-long raid with a cool name - Operation Falcon II. A total of 9,037 fugitives were arrested for crimes from kidnapping to homicide. Sweet pictures here. On second thought, how about we treat these 9,000 like we treat other lawbreakers - give them amnesty.

The ho's a liar! The Duke accuser blamed others for raping her ten years ago. That turned out to be a tall tale. Damn DNA always gets in the way of a quick profit.