- The 2010 census will have ground-breaking questions on gay couples.
- Kenya will also be doing a census on gays. It is unlikely to be accurate, though. Homosexuality if punishable by 14 years in prison.
- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, commenting on a not-so-attractive political opponent, “she is more beautiful than intelligent.”
- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will soon be receiving a bust of Vladimir Putin. Schwarzenegger collects busts and will add it to his Russian collection of Lenin, Stalin, Gorbachev and Yeltsin.
- The brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who is suspected to be a major player in the opium trade, has been on the CIA payroll for the last 8 years.
- The Obama administration’s new plan in Afghanistan includes trying to “buyout” the insurgency by getting Taliban fighters to switch sides by offering cash payments.
- Ex-Senator Edward Brooke, a Republican and the first African-American popularly elected to the Senate, was awarded the Gold Medal of Congress for his nonpartisanship. He then asked why the current Senate can’t operate the same way.
- Christopher Kelly, a former fundraiser for Rod Blagojevich, committed suicide on September 12. Toxicology reports reveal he died from pain killers and rat poison.
- California’s Assembly will begin debate on lifting a 96-year-old law outlawing marijuana.
- The Australian Sex Party has recruited a pole dancer as one of its candidates.
- Abstinence-only sex education programs are having tough budget times.
- The CIA lied or misled Congress five times since 2001.
- Argentina may become the first Latin American country to legalize gay marriage.
- The Iraqi parliament continues to be unable to setup parliamentary elections in January because it is unable to settle Kurdish claims on the oil-city of Kirkuk.
- To the warm welcome of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Sean Penn said the might shoot a movie in Venezuela.
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