It was a very fun weekend what with the “Fahrenheit 9/11” outing, the day at Coney Island on Saturday, and a return to Coney on Sunday to take my parents to a Cyclones game. This time, the Crappers beat them by a score of 6-5. To which I said “Oh Crap!”

But there’s lots of news to talk about on this Monday morning. After months of anticipating the June 30 transfer of sovereignty in Iraq, they instead did it two days early this morning with little fanfare. How anticlimactic. It’s like changing Christmas to December 23. Now I have to call the caterer and cancel the party I was going to throw on Wednesday. Kidding of course. No doubt, the date was moved up and not publicized in order to prevent terrorists from attacking during the ceremony. How effective will the new Iraqi leaders be against the insurgents? Can they convince other Arab nations to embrace their legitimacy? Or will they just serve as American puppets? Lots of questions remain to be answered.

In other news from Iraq, an American Marine of Muslim descent was captured and is threatened for a beheading. The terrorists are claiming that they infiltrated one of our camps and captured the marine. The Pentagon is claiming that the marine deserted days ago and must have been captured elsewhere. Who to believe?

Michael Moore is having a very good morning. “Fahrenheit 9/11” was the #1 movie at the box office this weekend. This is even more impressive considering that it was only playing on over 800 screens whereas the #2 flick, “White Chicks”, was on around 2500 screens. What’s even better is that the film’s popularity is not confined to the blue states. Theaters were sold out all over the red states that voted for Bush in 2000. Its success is now prompting distributors to release it in even more theaters. This film looks like its going to have some considerable staying power!

Here’s an interesting story. Tiffany Schley, the valedictorian of the High School of Legal Studies in Brooklyn, gave a graduation speech where she criticized the school for its failure to provide resources and address student’s concerns. This is obviously a very smart and astute girl as she will be attending Smith College on a full scholarship. After giving the speech, she returned to the school to pick up her diploma and was barred from the building and denied the diploma out of sheer retaliation for her speech! How repressive is that?!? Only after the Daily News exposed the story did the school relent and grudgingly agree to give her the diploma. Mayor Bloomberg had it right when he decried the school’s administrators as “bozos” who tried to deny her freedom of speech.