[This will be a new feature, if I can be bothered, a highly subjective news roundup with links to a few topical stories that have a different take on things or are quote worthy.]

Beauty:

Smart (apparently), good looking, eighty year old packs bags after losing all her money in gambling town: Miss America leaves Atlantic city

"The 84-year-old Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey, which attracts the smartest and most beautiful women in America"

and the Beast:

Not so smart, not so pretty, 30 something loses some of her money in conservative town: Anne Coulter gets canned by Arizona paper because conservatives don't like her

"Many readers find her shrill, bombastic, and mean-spirited. And those are the words used by readers who identified themselves as conservatives"

From (below) the Earth:

Hollister Freelance asks what goes on in mind of an oil man who doesn't believe in geology: Where does Bush think the oil came from?

"Equating intelligent design with evolution could explain why Bush didn’t know where to look for oil in Texas. If he doubts that the stuff burning in our engines is the bi-product of naturally deselected dinosaurs, then he may believe it didn’t come from biomass laid down in marine sediments hundreds of millions of years ago, but was put wherever it is by God...That lays the blame for $3 gas squarely at the feet of God"

To the Moon:

Buy 18 get one free: Russians throw in space trip for Malaysians whose 2020 vision is to put man on moon

"The agreement with Russia to put a Malaysian into space was part of a deal to sell the Southeast Asian nation 18 Sukhoi military jets"

To Mars:

Little green fingers on Mars: Terraforming red planet required before we understand Global Warming

"By terreforming [sic] Mars we would learn an incredible amount about how a planet responds to such drastic global changes, allowing us to better predict how global warming will affect the Earth"