Speaking of brilliant, crap-inducing statements, Brooke was researching Depo-Provera and came across a site full of Depo stories. Some positive, some not so positive, and some unintelligible:

I have had 4 csections and 3 miscarriages before, The bleeding is nonstop and horrific.I belive those malcontents who intented this drug to treat molesters are women haterers and possible could care less if a women has a misscariage on it,Let us say if the male inventer of this drug was injected with it and had horroric bleeding from the genitial or other areas for 1 to 3 month,by god they would have to find a cure Now wouldn't They? Why were we experimented on?If I don't have cancer from this drug in which now seems to be able to sue over,I wish no one would ever harmed from it,My lack of respect for doctors is now at an all time high,I come from a medical family too. We must remember this is a drug which was invented as a punishment for molesters,WHAT CRIME DID WE COMMIT? Name Withheld

Crimes? Other than a bad James Joyce impression, no crime of which I'm aware. If you have any desire to persuade anyone with your writing (and you're not writing a letter to the editor of the Palookaville Post), precision, clarity and accuracy are not optional; they're essential. I admit that the prospect of having horroric bleeding from the genitial area is a tad alarming, even though I don't know those words or the properties or areas they signify. But there are better ways of relating your ideas to the world. Ha ha! Take THAT, bad writing!

Bush has begun to discover some of the perils of aligning with the religious right:

Bush's Remark About God Assailed (washingtonpost.com): Evangelical Christian leaders expressed dismay yesterday over President Bush's statement that Christians and Muslims worship the same god, saying it had caused discomfort within his conservative religious base... The Rev. Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, also issued a statement contradicting Bush. "The Christian God encourages freedom, love, forgiveness, prosperity and health. The Muslim god appears to value the opposite. The personalities of each god are evident in the cultures, civilizations and dispositions of the peoples that serve them. Muhammad's central message was submission; Jesus' central message was love. They seem to be very different personalities," Haggard said.... Sayyid M. Syeed, secretary general of the Islamic Society of North America, responded to Bush's statement with a single word: Alhamdullah, Thanks be to God. "We read again and again in the Koran that our god is the god of Abraham, the god of Noah, the god of Jesus," he said. "It would not come to the mind of a Muslim that there is a different god that Abraham or Jesus or Moses was praying to."

The Rev. Ted Haggard should get some sort of award for a statement like that. It's just so unfathomably brilliant that I want to crap my pants.