In a new feature to WCP, I will share the best stuff from the print media I've read over the past week.

Business Week reported in a recent issue that the word blog is now in the Oxford English Dictionary. They also mentioned that in a recent survey, 62 percent of Americans have never heard the word and don't even know what a blog is.

The one issue that I've always respected the Republican party on was fiscal responsibility. But then came the current administration that likes to spend money like a teenage girl with a credit card. In this LA Times story, discover how the "U.S.-led provisional government in charge of Iraq until last summer was unable to properly account for nearly $9 billion in Iraqi funds it was charged with safeguarding."
No one seems to have any fiscal sanity when it comes to the financial sink hole known as Iraqi Freedom, because if a Senator from either party questions it, they are branded a traitor to the American soldier. Has George W. figured out now why his father's administration didn't topple Saddam after the first Gulf War? Sure it's a great story that Iraqi's were able to vote in a Democratic election, but without an exit strategy and with US troops being forced to spend years in the hellhole of Iraq, I think it's an investment not even Henry Blodgett would have recommended.

Sports Illustrated's Steve Rushin has written a great column titled The Best Medicine which focuses on a boy named Tyler Kessler who has had one health problem after another, but through NFL football and steak dinners has found some joy in his life. This story should put in perspective whatever problems you may have.
If the heartwarming tale about Tyler has taken the edge off of your cynical view, check out the February issue of Spin Magazine, as writer Rodger Cambria catches up with the legendary rock groupie, Connie Hamzy. (see We're an American Band- "Out on the road for 40 days/ Last night in Little Rock put me in a haze/ Sweet, sweet Connie, doin' her act/ She had the whole show and that's a natural fact") Much like a favorite album, Connie's hole has spun around on the turntables of rock's biggest stars. Ms. Hamzy was never an elitist, as she wouldn't just sleep with legends like Ringo or Led Zeppelin members, but also would give oral pleasures to Huey Lewis and Dan Fogelberg. She alleges that Little Rock's most eligible married man, Bill Clinton was seduced by her charms. Clinton has denied it to which Hamzy replies "I may be a slut, but I'm not liar."
Sadly, the story details how the now 50 year-old Connie still goes to the gigs, but none of the rockers want her to blow them. Oh sweet, sweet Connie.