Saying "I can't see it, touch it, or feel it, but I can sell it, so I'm going to palm it off to the highest bidder," a 24-year-old New Zealand man is auctioning a framed deed of "soul ownership" on the web site TradeMe, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.[1]  --  Walter Scott said his soul "is 'a merry old soul' rather than a 'funk soul brother' but that he would 'would like to think there is a bit of funk in there somewhere.'"  --  "In 2001, 20-year-old U.S. university student Adam Burtle tried unsuccessfully to sell his soul on auction Web site eBay.  --  Bidding had reached $400 before the auction was pulled from the site, with the company ruling something tangible needed to swap hands." ...

The theme of this humorous 30-second MoveOn TV spot, scheduled for broadcast this week in Phoenix and nationally on CNN, is that George W. Bush and John McCain “are cousins, identical cousins.”[1]  --  It’s based on the theme song of the 1963-1966 American sitcom “The Patty Duke Show.”  --  Thanks to Roy Sutherland for sending this, who writes: “In times like these, humor is the best weapon.”  --  For more on this spot, see pieces in the Boston Globe and USA Today....