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So, think we got our money's worth from that Chicago consulting firm that helped the city develop its social-media skills?

City government is continuing its accessibility offensive with a deeper plunge into social media. Now city residents

This is a proposed cut in state funding that hasn't been getting much attention. It's escaped mine, anyway. From a letter to the editor in the Indianpolis Star:

George Will comments on the Obama administration's fixation on high-speed rail, a "disorder" that "illuminates the progressive mind."

Frank Buckles, the last American veteran of World War I has died at 110:

In 1917 and 1918, close to 5 million Americans served in World War I, and Mr. Buckles, a cordial fellow of gentle humor, was the last known survivor. "I knew there'd be only one someday," he said a few years back. "I didn't think it would be me."

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May I say tee-hee?

The new congressional leadership has pledged to require a citation of the constitutional justification for any new legislation, which would be comforting if we could believe legislators actually know and understand the Constitution. But, well. Over the last five years, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute has surveyed more than 30,000 Americans 33 basic civics questions, including 10 on the Constitution. Mostly college students were surveyed, but there was also a random sample of adults, including elected public officials.

A jury in Wabash found Scott Pattison guilty of sffocating his wife Lisa with a barbell on their weight bench. Now his lawyer, in a real stretch, is seeking to have a mistrial declared:

According to the motion, while the jury was deliberating they ran different tests on the weight bench. At one point two female jurors, who presumably weighed less that Lisa, got on the bench to see if there was any way not to get from underneath.

Here's a great explnation of this particular point in history.

1. Repbulicans in President Bush's second term sucked:

They were idiots, they were no good at the whole fiscal conservatism thing (which is sort of the whole point of them), we had these wars that seemed to be going nowhere, and the economy was beginning to fail.

2. But Democrats under President Obama have sucked even worse:

If you've gearing up for that big End of the World party for Dec. 21, 2012, you might want to uncancel your insurance and stop spending the kids' college money:

A critique of the Mayan calendar in the textbook, “Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World,” argues that the conversion from the Mayan calendar to modern calendar may actually by off by about 50-100 years.