Current Affairs

OK, tell me again why I should vote for Republicans this year?

It is expected that after intense debate, Congress will approve an increase in the current $8.18 trillion debt limit by perhaps $781 billion.

A lot of people have commented on this moronic twit who used his classroom pulpit not just to bash the Bush administration but to vent what seems to be a deep and genuine hatred for America:

He said that in Bush's State of the Union speech, the president was, in effect, "threatening the whole planet."

Leave it to the animal lovers to find the real controversial issue in an otherwise unremarkable movie:

"Brokeback Mountain," the controversial film about homosexual cowboys in love, allegedly had a lack of loving concern for the animals featured in the film.

The discussion of those Muhammad cartoons at IPFW was a little more civil than this one:

A student panel discussion on Islamic extremism that included the "unveiling" of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, including one of him wearing a bomb-laden turban, repeatedly descended into name-calling chaos Tuesday night.

Does dying count as sick leave?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Businesses need to plan on having 40 percent of their workforces out if a flu pandemic strikes and need to start rewarding employees for staying home when they are sick, U.S. government advisers told a conference on Tuesday.

I've always known that the state of my birth is more with it than most people realize, but, dang, it is really out there:

Few city employees knew about the new dress code passed by the Danville City Commission Monday. Several were asked to talk about it publicly, but they refused, fearing they would get in trouble with their supervisors.

A fascinating take on patriarchy, not used in the pejorative way you might be used to:

If the drug dealers see a German Shepherd, they're likely to get suspicious, right? So what's needed is an undercover dog:

Tom Griswold of the Bob & Tom radio show has been complaining about cursive writing for a week (why does it have to be taught along with printing when so few people can do it legibly anyway?), so he must have seen an account of this study:

I don't care what else happens in the economy, but we'd better not have a Twinkie crisis.

Saved! Fort Wayne Indiana etc. offers up a recipe so we can make our own Twinkies. You cannot just have Twinkies, of course -- that would not be a balanced meal. So you should make some Snicker's Pie to go with them.