Hey, buddy, wanna buy some phone lines? Probably wouldn't be a very good investment, though:
Verizon is reportedly in discussions to sell up to 5 million phone lines in seven states.
The New York-based telecom is courting statewide divestiture of 1.6 million lines in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont along with 3.4 million lines in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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If we want to understand how subcultures can isolate and insulate themselves, becoming perverse enclaves interested in nothing but their own perspectives, we could learn a lot by what has happened in a certain segment of the deaf community. Jane K. Fernandes' job as president of Galludet University, the nation's only liberal arts college for the deaf, is in jeopardy, apparently because she is "not deaf enough":
What could possibly get the ACLU and fundamentalist, end-time-is-nigh Christians fighting on the same side? How about a national ID card?
Americans choosing not to carry a national ID, the site warns, will be prohibited from driving a car, boarding a plane, train or bus, entering any federal building, opening a bank account, or possibly from holding a job.
Just in case you think that anti-war critics are treated harshly today, sometimes being called un-patriotic and all, and that xenophobic sentiment sometimes seems to be evident in discussions of illegal aliens or Muslim Arabs. It was once much worse:
Silly prattle from economic morons:
A full-time stay-at-home mother would earn $134,121 a year if paid for all her work, an amount similar to a top U.S. ad executive, a marketing director or a judge, according to a study released Wednesday.
The ACLU, once again marching in step with the American mainstream:
I told you that if you put up with the boring political comments that we'd get back to the good stuff:
At the May 7, 2006, meeting of the Michigan Mutual UFO Network, Lisa Shiel will provide compelling evidence for a connection between two usually separate esoteric phenomena -- Bigfoot and UFOs. This presentation will be based on her new book "Backyard Bigfoot: The True Story of Stick Signs, UFOs, and the Sasquatch."
And you thought public schools weren't turning out scholars:
At Beaverton's Westview High School, it'll take a bus to transport all 75 valedictorians to the Class of 2006 graduation ceremony.
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Is there a single person out there who is shocked by this?
The penny is being pinched by the rising cost of production.
It could now cost 1.4 cents for the U.S. Mint to make each penny.
