Because the United States government has so much extra money on its hands after completely funding all necessary programs, and because the state of affairs in our country and world is going so great right now, with not a problem on the peaceful world horizon, the U.S. Congress has decided to spend some of its free time probing the issue of Charles Rangel's use of official congressional stationery.

Rangel, a Democrat from New York, is calling for an ethics committee to vinidicate him in some nasty remarks about how he is using his congressional letterhead. Apparently, he (*gasp*) used the pretty paper to send letters about his own personal project, a non-profit group bearing his own name.

Turns out Congress has laws about how you can use their paper. For example, you can shred it, burn it, even make paper airplanes. But you can't use it to get money for your own personal groups. With people dying around the world from AIDS, disease, starvation, and war, we need to put those on pause to investigate the important questions: How exactly are Congressmen and women using our tax-payer-paid office supplies? Rangel should have stuck to the paper airplanes.