SNIPPETS

DECEMBER 11,  2009

From The Politico:  Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, gave a nearly $14,000 pay raise to a female staffer in 2008, at the time he was becoming romantically involved with her, and later that year took her on a taxpayer-funded trip to Southeast Asia and the Middle East, though foreign policy was not her specialty.

Small-time player.  Not in Tiger's league.

DECEMBER 10,  2009

FRANKLIN, N.J., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Police in New Jersey said a man cross-dressed in his mother's clothes attempted to withdraw $700 from her bank account.  Investigators said Tita Nyambi, 25, of Franklin, was wearing his mother's pink blouse, her black coat and head scarf when he pulled into a Franklin Chase Bank's drive-thru lane at 1:22 p.m. Monday, The (Newark) New Jersey Star-Ledger reported Wednesday.

And we're told he looked lovely.