News roundup: Beauty and the Beast; from the Earth to the Moon to Mars

[This will be a new feature, if I can be bothered, a highly subjective news roundup with links to a few topical stories that have a different take on things or are quote worthy.]

Beauty:

Smart (apparently), good looking, eighty year old packs bags after losing all her money in gambling town: Miss America leaves Atlantic city

“The 84-year-old Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey, which attracts the smartest and most beautiful women in America”

and the Beast:

Not so smart, not so pretty, 30 something loses some of her money in conservative town: Anne Coulter gets canned by Arizona paper because conservatives don’t like her

“Many readers find her shrill, bombastic, and mean-spirited. And those are the words used by readers who identified themselves as conservatives”

From (below) the Earth:

Hollister Freelance asks what goes on in mind of an oil man who doesn’t believe in geology: Where does Bush think the oil came from?

“Equating intelligent design with evolution could explain why Bush didn