Monday Madness

GEORGE MICHAEL ARRESTED: Pop singer George Michael has been arrested on drug charges after he was found slumped at the wheel of a car in London's West End.

RAKING IN THE RED-STATE DOUGH: Quote of the Day:

According to Variety magazine, some of the strongest audiences [for "Brokeback Mountain"] have been in Tulsa, Oklahoma, El Paso, Texas, Des Moines, Iowa and Lubbock, Texas. Lubbock is the place George W Bush calls his spiritual home and may well be the site for his presidential library. Greenwich Village it ain’t.

-Andrew Sullivan, in yesterday's Sunday Times.

THE DUMB-ING DOWN OF AMERICA CONTINUES: An Arizona State Senate committee has approved a bill that would allow college students to reject any reading assignments they find culturally offensive.