Tiger Woods hires Ari Fleischer as advisor. Invasion of Arnold Palmer Invitational imminent. [NY Post]

Well, that and one other thing:
A Mississippi county school board announced Wednesday it would cancel its upcoming prom after a gay student petitioned to bring a same-sex date to the event.
“Due to the distractions to the educational process caused by recent events, the Itawamba County School District has decided to not host a prom at Itawamba Agricultural High School this year,” school board members said in a statement…
School officials told [Constance] McMillen last month that she could not bring her sophomore girlfriend to the prom and also told her she could not wear a tuxedo.
As much as we want to mock Mississippi over this, the fact is they somehow managed to raise a young woman who’s not afraid of standing up for her rights. By name. In a national newspaper. That’s the real news.
Miss. prom canceled after lesbian’s date request [USA Today]

How long can you keep from strangling this cute kitten while reading a Tom Friedman column? Let’s find out!
An election does not a democracy make — and Iraq’s politicians still have yet to prove that they are up to governing, nation-building and both establishing and abiding by the rule of law.
So do America’s politicians, and they don’t even have a foreign invasion for an excuse.
Oh, look! Kitty’s licking herself! She’s so adorable.
So many sailors, so little time: “Massa climbed up on the top of his bunk, which is hard to do — you never crawl up on somebody else’s bunk. He wakes up to Massa undoing his pants trying to snorkel him.” [Atlantic]

Sully’s husband scores a hit in DC. But in the interest of fairness, let’s Google up a counter-image:
Larry King to Eric Massa: “Are you gay?” Eric Massa to Larry King: “Why don’t you ask my wife, ask my friends, ask the 10,000 sailors I served with in the Navy.” [TPM]
Nevada has a “Tea Party” candidate challenging Harry Reid. Teabaggers say the Tea Party candidate is a decoy run by Harry Reid’s minions. Harry Reid may be smarter than we thought. [CNN, via Political Wire]
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