Another One Bites The Dust

CNN.com Schroeder sacks defence minister "German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has sacked his beleaguered Defence Minister Rudolf Scharping -- just 10 weeks before elections." So I guess Gerhard is batting oh-for-July this week. (And I also guess twisting a American baseball metaphor to describe German politics means I'll confuse readers on both sides of the Atlantic.)