I once remarked to a friend that somebody must be watching Steven Seagal movies; otherwiswe, they wouldn't keep making the damn things. I feel the same way about "The View," although the demograpics of its audience would probably scare me to death.
"View" co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck was in tears Thursday after a discussion about the use of the n-word, in which fellow co-host Whoopi Goldberg told her the two "don't live in the same world."
Dress does are fine, and I think I've even written that school uniforms can help create a good learning environment. But messing with a kid's hair is getting too personal:
A small rural school district in Fort Bend County and a determined mother are tangled in a dispute over hair.
Michelle Betenbaugh says her 5-year-old son, Adriel Arocha, wears his hair long because of religious beliefs tied to his Native American heritage.
Wave of the future?
A Virginia company today announced it will hire 480 people to work in a "virtual" call center - their own homes.
N.E.W. Customer Service Companies will hire customer reps from Terre Haute and surrounding west-central Indiana cities over the next three years.
Feel free to insert your own doughnut joke:
A police lieutenant in Daytona Beach was fired over accusations that he threatened slower emergency response times if he was not given complimentary specialty Starbucks coffee drinks.
An internal police investigation found that Daytona Lt. Major Garvin received free coffee for about two years from a city Starbucks coffee store.
Well, it's a start:
A company that owns 11 McDonald's restaurants in Nevada was fined one million dollars Wednesday after pleading guilty to employing 58 illegal immigrants.
No work, no incentive to come here illegally. Make it a lot more companies and a few billion in fines, and there will be no more illegal-immigration crisis.
If you've done a lot of cooking, you might know the French phrase mise en place, defined by the Culinary Institute as "everything in place." It means to have everything you need to prepare a meal -- utensils, main ingredients, spices -- lined up precisely so that there's no searching or fumbling around once the actual cooking starts.
OK, who didn't see this one coming?
Once upon a time tattoos were
OK, I don't know much about diplomacy and the intricacies of international relations, but this seems like a bad deal to me:
Hezbollah on Wednesday handed over the bodies of two Israeli soldiers seized by its guerrillas two years ago, in a prisoner swap greeted with triumph in Lebanon but anguish in Israel.
Not exactly a stunner:
This report compares the 2007-2008 textbooks that are currently posted on the website of the Saudi Ministry of Education with those analyzed in our 2006 study, and shows that the same violent and intolerant teachings against other religious believers noted in 2006 remain in the current texts.
We have an energy crisis because President Bush has not given a speech asking Americans to drive less:
