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Quick Fix 6 — 8/4/05

1. APhoto Fix: This image made from an undated video broadcast earlier today on pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera, shows al-Qaida's Ayman al-Zawahri speaking at an undisclosed location. In the video, al-Zawahri threatened more destruction in London here.

2. Cartoon Fix: Paul Nowak ($61 per barrel), Wayne Stayskal (Denver's pit bull ban), and Kevin Tuma (Energy bill).

3. Humor Fix: President Bush is vacationing in Crawford, Texas. He will be vacationing for five weeks. That's a long time. I don't think he has an exit strategy for his vacation either" --David Letterman.

4. My Way Fix: This Day in History here, Today's Birthdays here, and Word of the Day here.

5. Top of the News Fix: 4 more U.S. service members die in Iraq here, NASA decides against another space walk here, Palmeiro faces congressional perjury probe here, Stewart in home confinement through August here, and NYTimes checks into Roberts' adoption records here.

6. Opinion Fix: Jeff Jacoby/Boston Globe (GOP pork barrel), William Saletan/Slate (Bill Frist: Closet pro-choicer), David Brooks/NYTimes (Trading cricket for jihad), Frank J. Gaffney Jr./National Review (This is a war, not a struggle), and Wesley J. Smith/Discovery Institute (PETA's twisted thinking).



Huckleberries Online

D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.