Current Affairs

Well, let's have a last round of Ahmadinejad. The great leader may have gone one step too far in his speech at Columbia. He can get away with his Holocaust denial in some quarters, but this willful ignorance just won't fly:

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A hardy band of entrepreneurs given a helping hand by a caring government, or another group of downtrodden further oppressed by the man? You decide:

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -- In an effort to bring prostitutes into the legal economy, officials said Monday that Hungary will allow sex workers to apply for an entrepreneur's permit -- a move that could generate government revenues from an industry worth an estimated $1 billion annually.

This isn't exactly comforing:

Nearly 10,000 foreigners from states sponsoring terrorism have obtained permanent residency in the United States in the past seven years, congressional investigators say.

When I was still in high school, a friend of mine confessed, during a much-regretted hangover, that he did not "drinkee for drinkee"; he "drankee for drunkee." That put him decades ahead of this guy, an honest-to-God sociologist who works for a real univeristy:

It is only 7.30pm, but difficult to avoid groups of rowdy teenagers. As we head towards the restaurant we see two girls sitting on the pavement, giggling as they throw up.

Leo's Fidel watch:

MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) - Cuban leader Fidel Castro nearly died and underwent several blood transfusions in which almost all his blood was exchanged, but he is now doing well, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday.

If you've read many USA Today editorials, you know there is hardly an issue -- no matter how controversial or complicated -- on which the paper will not try to find the middle ground. In this piece, the paper tackles the subject of high school exit exams, which 26 states use to make students prove they have learned what they were supposed to in order to get diplomas. Without them, a high school diploma becomes less and less valuable. But with them, many kids will get left behind without a diploma.

I think this is the wrong question:

Is a college campus a place for all views to be aired, or are some public figures too extreme to deserve the platform?

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I have also felt like this about the Jena case:

"What The Hell Happened in Jena? I haven't commented because, frankly, I am still unsure of all the details of the case..."