6/30: Morning Communique

THESE DAYS

Reynolds Tobacco has begun marketing watermelon-, coconut-, berry-, and pineapple-flavored cigarettes to people who I'm sure are 18 or over.

A new Business Roundtable report says that "the United States is not sufficiently prepared for a major attack, software incident or natural disaster that would lead to disruption of large parts of the Internet."

A Marine who was dubbed the Marlboro Man after appearing in an iconic photograph from the Iraq War has filed for divorce less than a month after dozens of Americans contributed to a dream wedding for him and his bride.

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

Bob Schaefer is the pastor of First Lutheran Church of Litchville, North Dakota, and Spring Creek Lutheran Church of Hastings, North Dakota. When he's not preaching, he's blogging at Musings of a Young Pastor.

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TIME WASTERS

Not currently on Bravo: Inside the Porn Actor's Studio

It's slithering ever closer: Snakes on a Plane Trailer 1

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"Valerie Plame was not a CIA Agent."

-- Former Congressman Tom DeLay (R-TX), discussing the do's and dont's of government leaking on Hardball