What Caught My Eye Today

Presidential Ambitions - You might want to consider another family name to add to the ranks of the Roosevelt's and Kennedy's. I give you the Bush family.. (that's Bush #41) touted another son, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, as a future president. Admitting that "right now is probably a bad time to make that suggestion (do you think?)," Jeb Bush did not completely rule out the scenario saying he left open the possibility of future campaigns. "While the opportunity to serve my country during these turbulent times is compelling, now is not the right time to return to elected office," Bush said. Yeah, I'm thinking 2012 would be a much better time to give it a go. If dude somehow manages to wind up in the White House at some point--and stranger things have happened--the Bush family would be the first in U.S. History to have three members of the same family elected to the Presidency. Now there would be some serious bragging rights.

Bolivia - Props to the ingenuity of this next downtrodden soul. A Brazilian woman was sent home from Bolivia after she stripped naked at the foot of a statue of Jesus in a town square. The woman was hoping to be deported because she had run out of money to pay her way back home. Pretty creative thinking wouldn't you say. She had stripped once before and was detained and released, so she returned to the monument a second time, this time causing a traffic jam. Immigration officials drove her to the Brazilian border, and the Brazilian Consulate gave her money to catch a bus home. Wow. Clever, persistent, an exhibitionist and Brazilian. This broad sounds like quite the catch.

China - China warned Google and several other popular Web portals that they must do more to block pornographic material from reaching Chinese users. Authorities said a Google search in China turned up "a large number of links to porn websites," and that Google had failed to take any effective steps to block the content. A government spokesperson said "immediate action is needed to purify the Internet environment." Okay, here's my problem with this story. How is it Google's fault that the general Chinese population is chock full of a bunch of sex-starved horn dogs? What do the authorities expect a search engine to return when someone does a query on "hot naked booty"? Maybe if the government did have such a proverbial stick up its butt, the people wouldn't be turning to the Internet for a bit of an escape.

Iceland - How bad is the global economy? Just look who's trying to lend a hand to help Iceland recovery from its economic woes. Although Iceland is still reeling from its virtual national bankruptcy, its best known musician thinks it is a great policy to invest. Bjork announced that she was teaming up with a Reykjavik venture capital firm to launch "a fund that will invest in companies that are socially and environmentally responsible and will help restore Iceland's battered economy. First of all, if you are limiting your options to companies that are both "socially and environmentally responsible" good luck with that--because you are likely to find rather slim pickings. Secondly, who in their right mind would take financial advice from a chick who goes to awards shows dressed up like a duck?