In today's issue of SN&R, "5 steps to marriage freedom" by Kel Munger.

Ends with a personal story about how marriage matters:

This from SN&R's Kel Munger:

"Revolt of the frightened, middle-aged white tea-baggers"

"...Second, this was all about the over-40 white people (only person of color I saw in the whole place who wasn’t wearing a police uniform was a brave Black man on a bicycle who rode by with a “Fox Sucks” sign shouting “Fox can teabag me!”). Men outnumbered women about three to one."

From today's Sacramento News & Review:

"Whatever the ultimate outcome of the U.S. Department of Justice’s ongoing investigation into Congressman John T. Doolittle and his wife, Julie--and it’s been going on for three years now--clearly his political career is over. Even if he and his wife unexpectedly locate some loophole to avoid indictment or imprisonment for the two corruption cases in which their fund-raising activities are inextricably entangled, the Doolittles’ unsavory skimming of campaign contributions and personally pocketing more than a quarter-million dollars have forever finished off their reputations among their own conservative kith and kin. From Sacramento to Washington, the only discussion of the Doolittle case by political insiders from both parties regards strategy over when and how and by whom he should be replaced."

Will Doolittle do time?

Also worth a look is the "Doolittle-opoly" game, which puts all his indiscretions on a board game:

Doolittle-opoly

This week's cover story--by R.V. Scheide--in the Sac News & Review is on the local 9/11 Truth Commission. It starts out looking like he's going to try to "de-bunk" the idea that there's more to the story than meets the eye, but as the article goes on, it becomes clear that he thinks there's something to it:

To tell the truth

On September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four jetliners, crashing two planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon. The fourth jet smashed into the ground in Pennsylvania after passengers overpowered the hijackers and the plane plunged out of control. By the end of the day, the twin towers, along with one other building in the WTC complex, had collapsed, the Pentagon was in flames, and more than 3,000 Americans had been killed in the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history.

Three days later, the FBI released the names and photographs of 19 Middle Eastern men, the alleged perpetrators of the attack. They were said to belong to Al Qaeda, a terrorist organization headed by Osama bin Laden that also has been accused of bombing two U.S. embassies in Africa and the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen.

That at least was the government’s official version of events, what most Americans have accepted as 9/11’s official story. However, an increasing number of skeptics now challenge the official story, including a group of 50 Sacramento activists who meet monthly to compare notes on the topic. They’re part of what’s become known as the 9/11 Truth movement, a nationwide collection of concerned citizens who, provoked by the government’s failure to mount any sort of meaningful investigation, have begun investigating on their own.The movement’s theories about what really happened range from alleged criminal incompetence on behalf of the Bush administration to the virtually unthinkable notion that rogue elements of the U.S. government planned and executed the attack, including blowing up the World Trade Center. Could it really be possible that a small cadre of neoconservatives conspired to murder more than 3,000 Americans in order to create a “new Pearl Harbor”?

That depends on how far you’re willing to go.