What a great idea:
BELLINGHAM, Wash. - Instead of enduring a day of inattention and spring fever, Bellingham Christian School declared a "sun day" and gave everyone the day off.
School administrators had told the students there would be no school on the first sunny day that hit at least 63 degrees. After Monday's forecast called for a high of 65, school was closed. The mercury actually hit 68, the National Weather Service reported.
When I hear "diploma mill," I think of people padding their resumes with phony college degrees. But this story refers to phony high schools:
My brain hurts. Sometimes, my head feels so full of stuff that I can't take in one new thing without losing one. Sorry I forgot your birthday, Sis, I had to remember who was running for county commissioner. I apologize for forgetting your name; I had to remember what "wiki" means:
What a fun company this must be to work for:
Court records say the company's motivational practices began in the Hayward office, where sales teams competed, with the winners poking fun at the losers. The conduct included throwing pies at the losers, feeding them baby food, making them wear diapers and swatting their buttocks with a competitor's yard sign.
This all came to light in the court case in which a worker sued over the spankings. Obviously not a team player.
I'm like most people, I suppose; we look at stories about wretched excess and think, this is ridiculous:
CEOs at larger U.S. corporations on average earn $430 for every $1 earned by the average U.S. worker.
Twenty-six years ago, CEOs received an average of $10 for every $1 earned by a U.S. worker.
Somewhere in that quarter-century, something went terribly wrong.
If you're driving around the country, this map will help you decide when to stop for gas. Or you can just stare at it and get an overview of who is paying what. Just look at all that green out west -- we hate them out there. Right click to get county information (zooming in first helps). Here's what you get if you click on the Allen County link.
The therapeutic culture has gone one step too far:
Anger management courses for convicted armed robbers, wife beaters and stalkers are being axed by the prison and probation services following an official inquiry into the murder of the city financier John Monckton.
This poor senior citizen can't walk because he can't afford the gas to drive to where he likes to walk. The headline sort of says it all: "High gas prices keep me from exercising." His solution: Seniors should protest by observing "Slow Mondays' and slowing down to 22 mph. It will save gas, and get everyone else's attention. I think I've already been behind some of these people.
This might be the future of journalism:
I decided to try a little experiment. Instead of lining up an assignment from an editor to cover Northern Iraqi Kurdistan, I struck out on my own without asking permission from anyone. Almost all my material was posted directly to this Web site. I wanted to see if the amount of money I can raise from readers competes with the industry's going rate.
It does.
