Last month I wrote about contracting giant KBR's issues with employees' pillaging in Iraq and KBR employees sexually assaulting other KBR employees.

Sadly, it appears that KBR has dug even deeper. Think Progress reports that KBR had re-hired a man who had been fired in 2006 for possessing child pornography. The person in question, Ira Waltrip, is being detained in Austin under Federal Judge Robert Pittman's orders after being caught with child pornography again last month in Baghdad.

The always entertaining Mike Gravel and election phenom Obama Girl have teamed up in a new video. This is kind of like what would happen if MC Hammer got together Kanye West or something. Actually, I'm not sure what the analog would be for the music all the kids listen to. My first instinct was to go with Lionel Richie joining Q-Tip for a couple of tracks. I am apparently a few years behind.

John McCain is the presumptive nominee and has been for long enough that the remaining Republican primaries don't matter. That doesn't mean that failing to garner 80 percent of the vote in those remaining primaries isn't really embarrassing, or that unreasonably strong showings by Huckabee, Romney and Paul don't imply serious problems for McCain with the Republican base.