I really like my Pontiac Bonneville, but it's paid for, so maybe I should considering buying a Ford:
Ford Motor Co. today reported its worst full-year loss on record, but reiterated that it has enough cash and credit available to survive the year without resorting to government funding and said it is ending its controversial jobs bank program.
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This sure ain't gonna hurt alcohol sales:
Men who worry about the effect drinking has on their sex life should raise a glass to the latest research.
Alcohol actually improves rather than damages male performance in the bedroom, it is claimed.
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So-called low-risk drinkers, those who have four drinks a day for up to five days a week, fared best.
The economic downturn may have accelerated the Post Office's difficulties, but it hardly seems fair to make it the sole culprit:
The U.S. Postal Service may be forced to eliminate a day of mail service because the economic downturn has led to plummeting volume and revenue, the postmaster general said Wednesday.
It's way too late to even wish for this, but "doing nothing" is a lot better than being stupid:
Instead of fighting over what should go in the economic stimulus bill, pitting infrastructure spending against tax cuts and contractors against contraceptives, they say lawmakers should be fighting against the very idea of any economic stimulus at all. Call them the Do-Nothing Crowd.
I'm struck by the sympathy being shown for those who suddenly find themselves unemployed:
"These are not just numbers on a page," Obama said. "These are working men and women whose families have been disrupted and whose dreams have been put on hold. We owe it to each of them and to every single American to act with a sense of urgency and common purpose."
The Miss America beauty pageant scholarship competition has seemed on its last legs for years now, so I'm glad it lasted long enough for Indiana to get its turn:
Stam overcame 51 other contestants, a throat infection and laryngitis Saturday night to win the crown. She's the first winner from Indiana in the 88-year pageant.
"My state deserves it," said Stam, whose hometown is Seymour.
Just so you don't feel so bad -- Fort Wayne, as the second-largest city in Indiana, a place with no special geographic or cultural feature, is not alone in feeling insecure and in need of a special "brand" to sell itself. The largest city in Canada, with more than 2.5 million people, has an inferiority complex, too:
Others were whimsical: Why, asked one participant, is Toronto afraid to market itself as a great place to come in the winter?
It's one of my favorite times of the year again, when -- oh, no, another sign the economy is really, really bad:
If you seem to be tearing through those Girl Scout Thin Mints a little faster this year, you aren't imagining things.
Fewer cookies were packaged into Thin Mints, Do-si-dos and Tagalongs boxes this year, and the Lemon Chalet Crème cookies were resized to compensate for the rising cost of baking staples.
What's that saying? If you keep doing what you've been doing, you'll keep getting what you've been getting:
We all know how we got into this economic mess. We spent too much, borrowed with abandon, and acted like the bills would never come due. So what's the prescription for getting out? Spending more, borrowing more, and acting like the bills will never come due.
Today is the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in history. Why would even "right to choose" advocates celebrate such an abomination? But NOW apparently is. The headline on this AP story is a little misleading -- "U.S. abortion debate altered by Obama presidency" -- but the story itself gets it right:
