Boy, who saw this one coming?
It seemed like a great idea in college to get that tattoo of a giant tiger on the forearm or that silver barbell through the lip. But now that they're entering the "real world," potential employers aren't quite as enthusiastic about body modification.
The insanity continues, one small step by one nutjob at a time:
A Keller school district parent said political correctness has run amok at her daughter's elementary school, where the principal chose to omit the words "In God We Trust" from an oversize coin depicted on the yearbook cover.
You know how, during the Three Rivers Festival, you see all these strange people you never see at any other time and wonder where they spend the rest of the year?
Now, this is funny:
Even more revealing, 23 percent say they have sex tips they could share. Thirty-seven percent between 25 and 34 say that they are experts on sex, but that falls to 13 percent when older people are were asked, a press release said.
Giant candy company picks on kids' little chocolate company. This will create as much good will as Wal-Mart going into a hissy fit over the Smiley Face logo:
"We don't research how big or small a violator is - we're an equal-opportunity trademark protector," O'Hara wrote me in an e-mail. "We have to be, or we could face losing our trademark."
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I'm just trying to imagine showing up for work and finding out this guy was my boss:
Irish rock star and Third World campaigner Bono turned guest newspaper editor on Tuesday with the Independent agreeing to give half its revenues for the day to fight AIDS in Africa.
He's even more obnoxiously pretensious as a newspaper editor than he is as a rock star.
America's Top Ten Driving Peeves. No surprise that No. 1 is distracted drivers talking on cell phones. My No. 11 would be: Bicycle riders who don't think the rules of the road (like stopping at red lights) apply to them.
Here's a creative teaching assignment:
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. - A high school teacher has apologized for asking students to write about who they would kill and how they would do it, and officials said he will likely keep his job.
I'll bet you find this shocking. About 48 million people do not regularly put on seat belts when they are on the open road. Who are they?
Often they are young men who live in rural areas and drive pickups, the government says.
How do Americans feel about all those phone calls the NSA is stuffing into a database? Well, says an ABC-Washington Post poll, 63 percent strongly endorse the program as an effective way to combat terrorism. No, no, says a USA Today poll, Americans oppose it by a 51-43 percent margin. The poll results differ, the USA Today story suggested "because questions in the two polls were worded differently." Gee, do you think?
