Answer to the question we never thought to ask, "Why are elections on Tuesdays?"
Answer to the question we never thought to ask, "Why are elections on Tuesdays?"
This happened last week, and I'm just now catching up with it. Disturbing:
In an interview with CNN host Piers Morgan last week, Media mogul and CNN founder Ted Turner said the fact that there have been more suicides than combat deaths in the Army this year is not “shocking,” but “good.”
President Obama dropped by “The Tonight Show” to chat up Jay Leno on Wednesday as part of his two-day “campaign extravaganza.” Perhaps it’s just two days because counting higher is a bit of a challenge?
AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas prides itself on being the biggest — now it’s also the fastest.
On Wednesday, a newly constructed toll road opened about 20 miles south of Austin with a speed limit higher than any other roadway in the nation: 85 mph.
An interesting perspective -- "You don't own your Kindle books, Amazon reminds customer":
On a dark and stormy night, an employee of your local bookstore strolls into your home, starts tossing books you'd purchased over the last few years into a box, and — despite your protest — takes them all away without saying a word.
Some conservative writers are starting to hit back on behalf of Richard Mourdock. Here's a critique of attempts to compare Mourdock's comments to those of Todd "There is no pregnancy from legitimate rape" Akin, by The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto :
What a bunch of craven little twits:
Holy cow. This election may be almost over already. I've been hearing about heavy early voting for days now, and today I experienced it. Middle of the week, 11 a.m., and the Election Board office at 1 W. Superior was jampacked. There must have been 50 people in line ahead of me, and they kept streaming in. There were probably 75 there when I left and still more arriving.
An Iowa teacher's aide was fired Tuesday after school officials recently learned she was the member of an Indianapolis family who tortured and killed a girl in the basement of their home in 1965.
An inexplicable outbreak of common senseon the bench:
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Lap dances are taxable because they don't promote culture in a community the way ballet or other artistic endeavors do, New York's highest court concluded Tuesday in a sharply divided ruling.
Researchers once again discover the obvious:
Daily experience suggests that non-romantic friendships between males and females are not only possible, but common—men and women live, work, and play side-by-side, and generally seem to be able to avoid spontaneously sleeping together. However, the possibility remains that this apparently platonic coexistence is merely a façade, an elaborate dance covering up countless sexual impulses bubbling just beneath the surface.
Listen up, fellow crimethink co-conspirators. Here's your Newspeak vocabulary lesson for the day:
What do you call a first-year student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill? If you said freshman, you’re living back in the Stone Age, when cavemen (make that cavepersons) roamed the earth.
I got sidetrack by election-coverage chores last week, so I didn't get around to blogging about the partisan claptrap that caught my eye in a Journal Gazette endorsement editorial. It concerned House District 82 in which the paper favors the Democrat, Mike Wilber. This is what they wrote about his opponent:
Be careful what you wish for:
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Republicans hope to solidify their grip on the Statehouse in next month's elections, but the GOP's goal of winning enough House seats to essentially render Democrats irrelevant could prove an elusive target.
Convention organizers are concerned that a reduction in the number of direct flights between Indianapolis and other cities could hurt their chances of attracting big events.
I guess it had to happen:
In Superman issue 13, the Man of Steel's alter ego, mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, quits the Metropolis newspaper that has been his employer since the DC Comics superhero's earliest days in 1940.
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I know unions in tough contract negotiations can engage in some pretty brutal tactics, but surely this goes too far:
Hundreds of New York Times staffers are ready to participate in a byline strike in their latest demonstration over contract talks.
We automatically think of George McGovern as an unwavering liberal progressive, but some consider him a libertarian hero, too:
