Another case of one thoughtless miscreant spoiling it for everybody else:
HOUSTON — For decades, Texas inmates scheduled to be executed had at least one thing to look forward to: a last meal. Earl Carl Heiselbetz Jr. ordered two breaded pork chops and three scrambled eggs in 2000. Frank Basil McFarland asked for a heaping portion of lettuce and four celery stalks in 1998. Doyle Skillern ate a sirloin steak in 1985.
Drat. I found a really nice bunker buddy, but now they've stopped dropping the bombs. Dear Abby, should we stay friends or just go our separate ways?
With rising gas prices and a slowing economy, more residents of Indianapolis' Northside suburbs are looking to economize their daily commute to Downtown. The upshot? The area's carpool scene is booming.
Mitt Romney is working awfully hard to show us that, deep down, he's just a Regular Guy:
Like the stars in Us Weekly, Mitt Romney wants voters to know that he is just like them.
Ding, ding, ding! We have a brand-new euphemism:
The headline on this story is "Vote shows Boehner's lack of control," which is kind of an old-fasioned, horse-race way of reporting Washington politics. There is a new group dynamic now that people who should know better continue to ignore:
House Republicans tried a fresh strategy Wednesday night: Go it alone on a spending bill.
The result was an embarrassing setback.
An interesting phenomenon explored: Why have journalists, who spent so much time and energy bashing blogs, been so taken with Twitter?
I find the question especially interesting because Twitter seems to have all the bad aspects of blogging and none of its strengths. Smith offers two reasons why he tweets so much despite being paid to blog: Twitter is faster and it is now the dominant medium of online political “conversation”.
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Many people have noticed that the normal rules of etiquette don't seem to apply online. The language is rougher, the spirit meaner, the rules for civility a whole lot looser. It appears that this tendency is only going to get stronger in the future:
Yeah, well, what the heck would they call it?
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) -- Southern Baptist Convention President Bryant Wright has announced the appointment of a presidential task force to study the prospect of changing the 166-year-old convention's name.
Wright, who was re-elected to a second one-year term during the SBC annual meeting in Phoenix this past June, said he believes the study will be helpful for two main reasons.
David Brooks has finally seen the light:
Yes, I'm a sap. I believed Obama when he said he wanted to move beyond the stale ideological debates that have paralyzed this country. I always believe that Obama is on the verge of breaking out of the conventional categories and embracing one of the many bipartisan reform packages that are floating around.
Another analog stalwart is succumbing to the digital age:
Motorists' bane, magnet for thieves, and memorialized in the Beatles' “Lovely Rita,” the diminutive parking meter has led an outsize life. But its days in New York City are about to expire.
