Why is this even a story?

And, now more importantly, how come this story has had better staying power then lies swept under the rug by the Bush administration.

You know what I'm talking about, Harry Potter gives children headaches! It causes headaches! Pot headaches! Children, dun dun dunnn.. [dramatic pause] REEEEEAD TOO MUCH!

As if children sitting 2 feet away from a TV for 6 hours a day wouldn't cause the same result, but nobody ever complained about it then.

This story has been in the media for, what, a week now? It's time for the story to die since it never should have lived in the first place. Why aren't they talking about Halliburton's multibillion, no-bid contract in Iraq being extended, or that these no-bid sweetheart contracts have been awarded to companys that donated heaping amounts of money to the Bush campaign. And hey, whatever happened to the Wilson/Plame scandal where high ranking members of the Bush administration broke the law and risked the lives of Americans of who diligently work for their country, only so they could smear Joe Wilson for speaking out against the Bush administration's claims of Iraq trying to purchase "yellow cake" nuclear materials from Niger?

And what about that whacky 9th Circuit Court of Appeals knocking down a case against touch screen voting machines brought to their attention by a citizen concerned about the health of our democracy? She claimed the, "lack of a voter-verified paper trail in the Sequoia Voting Systems AVC Edge Touchscreen Voting System that the county installed violates her rights to equal protection and due process." But the court, despite all the recent stories about Diebold, dismissd her case as being, "a hypothetical concern about the ability to audit and verify election results, and that the impact on her right to vote is minimal." I wish I was making this up, but I'm not.

Nope, Potter Potter Potter! Oh, BTW, the economy ROCKS! We would never think about fudging the unemployment numbers to make it look like people are geting jobs!

In fact, don't read! It's dangerous! Set your TV to Faux News and rip off the knob, it's the only way you'll feel safe, happy, warm, and cozy. So just mozy over to the dark side.. Err, I mean, our side!