TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES

...TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES AND RUMOR HAS IT THERE WAS ALSO SOME UNACCOUNTED-FOR BABYSITTING MONEY According to The Wall Street Journal, when Jim Murrell started falling behind his 18-year-old opponent, John Payton, in their race for justice of the peace of Plano, Texas, Murrell hired a public relations firm to spread the news about Payton’s attendance problems at his high school and his troubles on part-time jobs at a local golf course and a fast-food restaurant...

...DON’T LEAVE ROME WITHOUT IT The Chevy Chase (Maryland) Federal Savings Bank notified the Luther Place Memorial Church of Washington, D.C...

...Scott Jones, who draws a staff salary of $50,000 a year to study “paranormal phenomena...

...Jones recently wrote a letter on Senate stationery to Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney asking if there was any national security significance attached to the word “Simone,” which Jones claimed to have heard when certain speeches by President Bush, Secretary of State James A. Baker, and Cheney were played backwards...

...that it had reserved a gold card with a $6,000 credit line for Martin Luther...

...AFTER ALL, THEY DIDN’T MAKE ANY SENSE PLAYED FORWARD Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Claiborne Pel1 has an aide, C.B...