Where I come from, this would have brought out the torch-and-pitchfork mob:
Pittsburgh City Council today gave its unanimous, initial approval to legislation banning mattresses, box springs, sofas and upholstered chairs from city porches, primarily to prevent the celebratory burning of such items, as has happened repeatedly in Oakland.
With about three months left in the current school year, the number of Chicago Public School students slain has reached 26, matching the total for all of last school year.
Most of the killings have taken place on neighborhood streets and not during school hours.
The Rocky Mountain News in Denver is gone now, and now we have a list of the 10 major daily newspapers that are most likely to fold or shutter their print editions:
I don't know whether this is more depressing because of what it says about retirement income or what it says about an important segment of the Indiana economy, but it IS depressing: "People over 55 today will spend their golden years in the equivalent of Elkhart, Indiana." That's froma piece from Gary North, who says people near retirement haven't quite yet grasped that their "golden years" aren't going to be quite what they imagined:
Billy Graham defines cults. If this is the working definition, it seems to apply also to, well, Baptists and Catholics and Muslims and . . .
One characteristic of cults is that they strongly believe they alone are right in their beliefs and everyone else is wrong.
Liberals and conservatives, too, come to think of it. Not libertarians, though. We do not believe we alone are right. We know it.
Sure, we're a nation of restless nomads, but isn't this interesting?
Among all respondents to the Pew Research Center survey, 57% say they have not lived in the U.S. outside their current state: 37% have never left their hometown and 20% have left their hometown (or native country) but not lived outside their current state.
Hey, have you been looking for a reason to give an evening newspaper a chance?
A Southland woman has to undergo months of uncertainty about her health after she was pricked by a needle or syringe she found wrapped inside her morning newspaper.
The woman from Bluff has told the Southland Times she was an "emotional wreck" after collecting her paper on Tuesday morning - only to feel a sharp prick in her finger.
I admit that sometimes it's a struggle to come up with our weekly poll questions, and some of them might seem a trifle lame. I don't think we'll ever have one this bad, though, from the Adelaide Advertiser and Sunday Mail of Australia:
Is it a good idea to marry a serial killer? Vote in our poll on the lower right of this page
I voted so I could see the current results, which are (based on 1,787 votes):
Yes, love transcends all boundaries: 21 percent
A lot of conservatives are cheering the struggles of the MSM, even wishing for the imminent demise of all those biased, leftwing newspapers that deserve what they're getting. Be careful what you wish for, says Rick Henderson, for the last three years an editorial writer for the now-dead-and-gone Rocky Mountain News:
With bad news about the economy just piling higher and higher, somebody sooner or later just had to do a story about the unhappiest cities in America. Business Week has stepped up to the plate, picking Portalnd, Ore., as the absolute worst:
