Wednesday digest

- You knew it had to end sometime: Justin Hawkins, lead singer of The Darkness, has quit due to cocaine and alcohol addiction.

Could this mean that we'll be seeing Rockstar: The Darkness on CBS next fall?

- Why is this Ottawa city council so attached to the light rail project to the point that they're willing to lie about it?

- There's been a ton of ink spilled on the North Korean situation and I haven't had a chance to sift through it all yet, but one thing's clear: there are those will blame anything and everything they can on W. Last night on Coren, I even heard a "peace activist" say that if the President didn't include North Korea in the "axis of evil" line, they'd have given up their nukes by now. I love how the far left always ascribes rationality to the likes of Osama bin Laden and the Iranian leadership, among others. Then again, these are the same people that when you refer to the bloodthirsty, megalomaniac, insane, illegitimate, dictatorial son of the father who was really only marginally better, they aren't sure if you're referring to W. or Kim Jong-Il.

UPDATE: How long till some nutter suggests that this was arranged by the Administration to get more national-security minded Republicans to Congress elected next month?

UPDATE II: It's now been revealed that the victim of the crash was Yankees P Cory Lidle, but that doesn't take away from the likelihood that there were quite possibly millions of Michael Moore fans who had this accident explained as a Rovian plot quickly as it happened.