What the World Needs Now Is....Anti-Depressant Drinking Water?

At a time when tensions in the U.S. and abroad are tight, running high, and, in some places, bursting out all over, maybe it's not such a bad thing that the Brits have discovered traces of Prozac in the drinking water? Certainly, environmentalists and people who worry about the cumulative effects of excreted pharmaceuticals and built-up chemicals in the world's water supplies aren't happy about the finding. It certainly made headlines at the BBC.

Speaking of worldwide phenomenon, it says a lot about the state of U.S. politics and voting processes when many of BlogPulse's top hits are about international observers being assigned to monitor the upcoming U.S. Presidential election. (We're assuming Jimmy Carter, for obvious reasons, will not be called into duty). Because of the behind-the-scenes work by Congressional reps to get the foreign monitors in place, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson rose from obscurity to No. 3 on Tuesday's burstiest people list, followed two spaces back by Urdur Gunnarsdottir, spokeswoman for the organization that will do the monitoring.

Out on the campaign trail, those Swift Boat Veterans, whose web site is Tuesday's top BlogPulse link, have stirred up the bee's nest with their newly launched campaign and attacks against John Kerry's military record in Vietnam. Another blog, Captain's Quarters, repeats similar claims...but scroll down to the comments section to get a good cross-section of the reaction (positive and negative) that's occuring among voters, vets and Vietnam remember-ers. Media Matters for America has compiled some tidbits about Jerome Coris, co-author of the book by the Swift Boaters.

On the other side of the fence, Bush is getting a few slams, too, including this posting from the American Progressive Action Fund about his campaign promises and the realities of his performance, and audio clips of more Bush-isms from Majority Report Radio.

It's going to be an interesting few months until Nov. 2...