Dr. Death

Jack Kevorkian, the assisted-suicide advocate who served eight years in prison for second-degree murder, announced Monday he's running for Congress as an independent.

If elected, he said his main priority will be promoting the little-known Ninth Amendment, which protects rights not explicitly specified elsewhere in the U.S. Constitution. Kevorkian said he interprets it as protecting a person's choice to die through assisted suicide or to avoid wearing a seat belt.

- AP/Miami Herald (link here)

Clinton gutter politics

Bill Richardson came out swinging Easter Sunday, slamming the "gutter" politics which he says is "typical of many of the people around Senator Clinton."

- NewsMax (link here)

Gutter politics have always been the Clinton norm.

Richardson should have known that if you cross the Clintons, you will be subjected to the politics of personal destruction.

He can be outraged, but he cannot be surprised.

Messes

Thanks to Mark for this one.

Cartoons

Osama bin Laden warned in a new audiotape of a "severe" reaction for Europeans' publication of cartoons of Islam's Prophet Muhammad in what experts saw as a direct threat of a new attack in Europe.

- AP/Star Tribune (link here)

The guy obviously has no sense of humor.

Humorous toilet paper

www.prankplace.com

Protohumans

As early as six million years ago, apparently close to the beginning of the human lineage, an ancestral species had already developed the transforming ability for upright walking, scientists reported on Thursday.

- NY Times (link here)

Rays kill again

A 55-year-old woman from Michigan died Thursday in a freak accident in which she was struck by a 75-pound spotted eagle ray that jumped out of the Atlantic Ocean just off the shore of Key Colony Beach near Marathon, said Bobby Dube, spokesperson for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

- Miami Herald (link here)