Politics and other nightmares

Well, if they work against Walmart, guess they're good to go against the government's secret brainwave experiments:

Louisville Metro Police say a man used aluminum foil to try to smuggle stolen DVDs past the anti-theft scanners at Walmart.

Here's a real heated-argument starter:

NCAA president Mark Emmert spoke with Tavis Smiley of PBS and delivered a harsh assessment of school officials in the wake of the Freeh Report delivered last week.

I don't know if this is a SWAG, speculation based on informed sources or a leak by the Romney camp, but it's interesting:

Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney appears to be in the final stages of deciding who to pick as his vice presidential running mate, with speculation growing that he has narrowed his choice down to a short-list of three.

Economics 101:

Did Mitt Romney and Bain Capital help office-supply retailer Staples create 88,000 jobs? 43,000? 252? Actually, Staples probably destroyed 100,000 jobs while creating millions of new ones.

You'd think Bruce Sprngsteen and Paul McCartney would be smart enough to know that if there is a curfew that officials have been enforcing pretty seriously, it might be a good idea to start the concert in time for it to be over before the curfew. But, noooo, and of course it's somebody else's problem, not theirs:

So, if I have to sit down to urinate, would that make me a retromingent reactionary?

The U.S. Navy's new class of carriers will be the first to go without urinals, a decision made in part to give the service flexibility in accommodating female sailors, the Navy says.

President Obama speaking in Roanoke:

AAAAAAAmen!

Is there a "fairness" factory somewhere out in Middle America producing self-sustaining jobs? If not, President Barack Obama's obsession with ending Bush-era tax cuts makes no sense as either policy or politics.

Pride of the U.S.A., made in China!

How shall we celebrate this year's Cost of Government Day on Sunday? Something frivolous perhaps, such as putting a few dollars under the mattress where nobody can find it:

This year, Americans have to work until July 15 to pay for the burden of government, more than six months.