Current Affairs

Amen:

See, it was all well and good to stop calling people bums and tramps and winos and use the much more sensitive term "homeless." But you know what happens when we try to change reality by changing perception. The new, better word starts being used the same way the old one was. Be honest, when you hear "homeless," you think "bum." So we new an even newer, more sensitive term than homeless. Oh, wait, here's one:

OMG, Sarah Palin snorted cocaine!

Another good reason to just stay home and watch all the games on the big-screen TV:

The NFL wants all fans patted down from the ankles up this season to improve fan safety.

Pat Robertson strikes again:

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson told his "700 Club" viewers that divorcing a spouse with Alzheimer's is justifiable because the disease is "a kind of death."

Hot news on the poverty front:

Indiana has outshone its neighbors in keeping and attracting jobs, but Census Bureau figures released Tuesday showed that more Hoosiers are slipping into poverty.

Indiana's poverty rate in 2010 climbed to 16.3 percent -- higher than the national average of 15.1 percent and putting the state in a tie for 15th in the nation with California and Oklahoma. Indiana had a poverty rate of 16.1 percent in 2009.

Well, what's the point then?

The 10th annual Midwest Deutsche Oktoberfest will be brewless Sunday.

That's because the big party is at the Ellis County Fairgrounds and the Sunday sale of beer is against the law in unincorporated parts of the county.

That's how they do things in Kansas. Here, I think we're at least smart enough to MOVE THE OKTOBERFEST TO SATURDAY!!!

Oh, no, not a Ponzi scheme, no siree, and how dare any of those nasty presidential candidates say so:

Cool:

Ah, the advance of civilization:

NANUET, N.Y. -  A 290-pound New York man is steaming mad at the White Castle fast-food chain, which he claims repeatedly broke promises to make the booths in his local eatery bigger.

Martin Kessman, 64, filed a lawsuit against the fast-food giant last week in Manhattan federal court, claiming that the uncomfortable booths violate the civil rights of fat people.

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