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More than 10,000 Israeli police officers will secure US President George W. Bush’s visit to Jerusalem next week, police said Wednesday. The three-day visit, which gets underway on Wednesday, will see a total of 10,450 police officers on the streets of Jerusalem to safeguard the president and his entourage, Jerusalem police chief Aharon Franco said at a police briefing. The police will be out in their largest numbers since the landmark 2000 Jerusalem visit of Pope John Paul II, and the 1998 visit of former US President Bill Clinton, Franco said.

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Strip club fee: In what some have dubbed the “pole tax,” Texas will require its 150 or so strip clubs to collect a $5-per-customer levy, with most proceeds going to help rape victims. Club owners argue that the fee infringes on freedom of expression, is an unconstitutional occupation tax and unfairly links their industry to sex crimes.

The Texas Entertainment Association and the owner of an Amarillo club have sued to block the fee, and a hearing is scheduled for Jan

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There only about 150 strip clubs in Texas?  That seems like such a low number considering the size of the state.  Heck, I would have thought DFW or Houston would have that amount alone, even uber conservative Abilene has one so I would have thought there would have been more in the state.  I guess that just about sums up my strip club knowledge. 

For many, many years, spirited debate has raged about who across the globe has the finest, most admirable mustaches. There are throngs of well-qualified candidates, and as the American Mustache Institute prepares to build a Mustache Hall-of-Fame in St. Louis near the world’s largest mustache – the St. Louis Arch – it is asking the public to help choose the penultimate four mustaches who’s faces and luxurious lip hair should adorn a soon to be named mountain in the western United States – to be known as Mt. ‘Stachemore.

Below are some options for consideration, but write-in candidates are welcome as well. Voters are asked to choose their favorite mustached humanoid, and AMI will take the results and ensure that those four who receive the highest number of votes are properly placed atop Mt. Stachemore.

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That 2008 is the International Year of the Potato.

www.potato2008.org