Boy, didn't see this one coming:
U.S. sales of music compact discs plummeted 20 percent in the first three months of the year as downloading of songs continued to knock the underpinnings from record studio revenues.
Eighty-nine million CDs were sold from the start of the year through March 18 as compared with 112 million CDs sold during the same period in 2006, according to figures released Wednesday by industry tracker Nielsen SoundScan.
No matter how old we get, we are too frequently like children, listening to the adults talk and trying to figure out what they mean.
DAD: We just saw the PG-13 movie. It was so good.
MOM: There was a big sex.
FRIEND FROM WORK: I am the loudest! I am the loudest!
(Everybody laughs.)
Good. Let's just kill the beast before it destroys public education altogether:
Support for No Child Left Behind
This warning about global warming isn't too hysterical, is it?
"Before this century is over, billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic," predicted James Lovelock, a renowned environmental scientist.
Well, this makes the VA scandal a little more understandable, doesn't it?
SALISBURY (AP) — A nurse responsible for monitoring care of frail military veterans didn't visit patients as required for two years and filed one report that listed a dead patient in stable condition, according to a federal inspection obtained by The Charlotte Observer.
I was going to make a joke about this, since that seems to be the mood I'm in today, like: Based on my recent trips to Best Buy, I thought they were already doing that:
If you walk into a Best Buy store this summer and see a tanned, rested sales-clerk clocking in or out of his shift on a whim, congratulations. You may have stumbled on a radical experiment: letting store employees work when they want.
What do we do when our compassion doesn't have the results we might have intended?
STAFFORDSVILLE, Ky. - The bidding for the black pony started at $500, then took a nosedive. There were no takers at $300, $200, even $100. With a high bid of just $75, the auctioneer gave the seller the choice of taking the animal off the auction block. But the seller said no.
This is going to be so exciting I can hardly wait:
Fidel Castro will be in "perfect shape" to run for re-election to parliament next spring, the first step toward securing yet another term as Cuba's president, National Assembly head Ricardo Alarcon said Thursday.
The acceptance of medical marijuana is growing, and this will only accelerate the movement:
Medical necessity doesn't shield medical-marijuana users from federal prosecution, a clearly sympathetic federal appeals court ruled today in an Oakland woman's case that earlier went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Gen. Pace hasn't apologized for his remarks about "homosexual acts" and shouldn't have to. He was expressing his personal opinion based on his religious beliefs, an opinion shared by many in this country and probably most in the military. It doesn't advance the debate to trumpet outrage instead of arguing with him.
But I do disagree with a premise of his position:
