Monday digest

- Today's loony left play of the day comes to us from the shores of Lake Michigan, where in an effort to protect residents of the Windy City from themselves, Chicago city council has banned foie gras. What is it with municipal politicans wanting to ban things like smoking, fatty foods, and in the case of Ottawa, pesticides, but when someone like Terry Kilrea comes along suggesting that the City should send an anti-urination and defecation on public property message, it's somehow beyond the pale? For those who like to jump to conclusions, I'm not endorsing Kilrea's plan, nor am I his press secretary. I just think that if local governments believe it's their role to police people's own health choices, shouldn't the basic sanitation of public spaces be something worth considering rather than some of the other nonsense that city pols across North America like to occupy their time with?

Or would that be lacking compassion?

- Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman has tapped a winner to help him in his Senate race, and that man's name is neither Dean, Gore nor Kerry.

Speaking of the haughty, French-looking Massachusetts Democrat who, by the way, served in Vietnam, he says that if he would have won in 2004, the current Mideast crisis would not have happened. He could be right. Perhaps Israel wouldn't have pulled out of Gaza, where this latest conflict first began, had Kerry and friends been in the White House because the terrorists would have been far too emboldened to warrant a chance to prove their commitment to co-existence with Israel in the first place.

And what about the possibility of a McCain-Lieberman ticket?

- I love Gregg Zaun. He's a guy who plays hard every day, puts the team before himself, and hates losing. I mean hates it. And if you don't reflect those same values, he'll let you know about it.

Great stuff.