It was an interesting story if you imagined Jonny Lee Miller from the 1995 flick “Hackers” cracking Sarah Palin’s e-mail account last week.

Instead, the glory goes to a bored college kid who GUESSED a password reset question in order to gain access to Palin’s Yahoo! account.

The question that gained him access to her email account?

“Where did you meet your husband?”

Of course, half the blogosphere is jammed to it’s gills with Palin information.  It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to Google the question and get the answer (The answer is high school, btw).

The twist in the story is that the college kid who’s suspected of accessing her Yahoo! account is the son of Democratic state representative Mike Kernell.

Now it all makes sense!  If you’ll allow me to quote myself from last weeks posts announcing the hack:

Things I immediately noticed from the screen shot sent by the hacker: they use Firefox, AIM, and Windows Messenger. Oh… and apparently there’s a paintball video playing on YouTube.

All the makings of a bored, rich, white, politicians son.  Can I call them, or what?

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On one hand, the U.S. denies Palestinian Fulbright scholars visas to study in the United States.  And on the other hand, they allow Arab students already studying in the U.S. entry to the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC.

Dozens of students from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Bahrain, The United Arab Emirates and Qatar visited the Israeli embassy in Washington this week.

“It was a unique opportunity to explain Israel’s position first hand,” said Rafi Harpaz, director of Public Affairs at the embassy, in a report sent to the Foreign Ministry.

When the briefing was over, the Arab students, all from affluent homes, shook Harpaz’ hand and asked to take photos with him, telling the director it was their first time meeting an Israeli.

Each student received a PR kit that included brochures about Israel, photos and CDs.

Perhaps the most important phrase here is that they’re “all from affluent homes”.

On the other side of the globe, Arabs are in a tiff:

Bahraini activists are upset with the United States after what they call unfair promoting of foreign interests as part of an international scholarship program for Arab students.

[Ibrahim Sharif, Secretary General of the National Democratic Action Society (NDAS)] said, “We have good relations with U.S. and several students go to pursue higher studies. It is normal for them to learn and understand American culture, but taking them to the Israeli embassy is bad taste.“

Bad taste? Welcome to free thinking, Mr. Sharif.