2005 Was Weird

As a farewell to 2005, the Washington Post brings us the year in review, as seen by Chuck Shepherd’s News of the Weird:

DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick told a middle-school class that the U.S. Congress is different from the Texas legislature because in Washington, there are “454” members on the House side and “60” in the Senate.