ERRATA: In the second graf it should read:

Chaffee is officially, if erroneously, a Republican.

In the section on percentages of payment, it should read:

According to the United Nations Encyclopedia, the United States pays 22% of the total U.N. budget - about twenty cents out of every dollar spent..

Tanzania pays .004 percent of the total U.N. budget - that's about four cents out of every THOUSAND dollars.

Mullfoto of the Day

This is just not right.

Catchy Caption of the Day

Actual Caption:

A wheat field on the outskirts of Beijing. China fears Grain prices in China are soaring due to increasing amounts of corn and other crops being used for bio-fuel instead of food.

Really. How do you say, "There's no such thing as a free egg roll" in Chinese?

(AFP/File/Goh Chai Hin)