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Yes, it's really that bad

Here it is, the proof we've been waiting for of a further economic downturn, from a "courtesan" in Las Vegas:

It seemed like the beginning of this year was looking up. I was doing better than the previous start of last year, and people seemed happier with their quality of life and earnings. Customers seemed more like they were before the recession really hit, and it made me less stressed and enjoy my job even more. However, this summer seems to have taken a complete nosedive.

The fire is gone

But a passion for what?

— He was fiery, and he was funny, but when the Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery got serious, he urged an Evansville audience Thursday night to be prepared to fight.

Speaking to the Evansville-Vanderburgh County Human Relations Commission Annual Dinner and Mayor's Celebration of Diversity Awards, Lowery said the passion with which activists fought during the civil rights struggles of the 1960s is needed now.

Toss of the coin

Every couple of years, some members of Congress get a sudden urge to replace the dollar bill with a dollar coin. The whims usually just lead to a few days or weeks or protest that fades away when people realize again nothing will be done because, well, so many people would be against it. Every time they try to shove a dollar coin down our pockets, we resist. Americans are no more ready for that, um, change than they are the metric system.

Who's in charge here?

Representative democracy? Oh, that's so messy and cumbersome. It takes forever to get anything done, and those darn "citizens" are such pesky louts.

Ya drive me crazy

Ah, how fondly I remember those innocent days when "Women suck at parking" was No. 1 on the "Men are sexist pigs who thoughtlessly spread horrible stereotypes about women" hit parade. But here comes the science:

Of the 170,000 women who failed their driving test in 2010 for mistakes in reversing or failing to use their mirrors, 55,000 failed on parking.

 

On the road again

Ever had a five-way?

A sex researcher at Indiana University reveals "five ways better sleep leads to better sex."

Our amusing economy

Hallmark says these new cards are selling well, which is either a sign we've accepted the "new normal" or that we've become totally dependent on superficial, secondhand banalities in our interpersonal communications:

In the business of selling sentiments, there's a card for everything, from traditional occasions to unique needs: cards with sound, cards for holidays, cards for losing a tooth.

But losing a job?

Wakey, wakey

The Charlie Brown Public is finally catching on to Government Lucy's pull-back-the-football trick. In a new Gallup poll, a record-high 81 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the way the country is being governed. The news there is that there are still 19 percent who haven't figured out the Matrix we're in yet. Among the more interesting results:

Hot stuff

People like this should be drummed out of the scientif community:

(Reuters) - Scientists around the world said on Friday the discovery of sub-atomic particles apparently traveling faster than light could force a major rethink of theories on the makeup of the cosmos, but the findings would first have to be independently confirmed.

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