Monday Miscellany

From the "Way-Too-Much-Time-on-Their-Hands" Department: Some folks in Arizona have launched a campaign to name the chimichanga the state's "official food."  We suspect that this will come to pass.  And immediately after being named the official food, the chimichanga will be asked for its papers and deported.

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"WASHINGTON — The summons from the president came without warning the Thursday before Labor Day. As she was driven the four blocks to the White House, Lisa P. Jackson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, suspected that the news would not be good. What she did not see coming was a rare public rebuke the president was about to deliver by rejecting her proposal to tighten the national standard for smog." ("Re-Election Strategy Is Tied to a Shift on Smog")

Is anyone else troubled by the fact that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency "was driven the four blocks to the White House"?  The woman couldn't have walked?