It's back-to-school time, so we have to put up with this annual exercise in silliness:
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Remember when suitcases had to be carried instead of rolled? Or when an airline ticket was a booklet of pages separated by carbon paper? Maybe you remember when Lou Gehrig held the Major League record for consecutive baseball games played.
Tiffany Gee Lewis on why we need books now more than ever:
If you've ever wondered what the hell a "pansexual" is, let Texas State Rep. Mary Gonzalez explain it to you, since she just came out as one:
Man, that's some creative teaching:
In a case of the devil you know, an Indiana high school is trying to teach students what not to say by having them write it down.
In a lesson on cursing, students at the Thomas Carr Howe High School in Indianapolis were asked to spell out the curse words they know.
Dang, I bet somebody could write a good country song about this:
Country superstar Randy Travis walked naked into a convenience store to buy cigarettes, touching off a bizarre series of events that ended with him being charged with threatening to shoot a state trooper in North Texas, police and sources said.
This one may not be as obvious as some past nominations, but I think this is a good candidate for the "well, duh" file:
Honesty may boost your health, suggests a study that found telling fewer lies benefits people physically and mentally.
This year, for the first time in history, more old albums will be sold than new ones. In the first half of 2012, "catalog" albums -- those released more than 18 months ago -- sold 76.6 million units. New units tallied 73.9 million. And the difference are likely to increase -- "new" will never outsell "old again." Why is this happening?
Here's a different kind of age-discrimination suit:
A 3.2 grade point average is not what it used to be.
"Vertigo"? The best movie of all time? Really?
Just in time for my fuddy-duddy "this dang music today is awful" stage comes this validation:
The scepticism about modern music shared by many middle-aged fans has been vindicated by a study of half a century's worth of pop music, which found that today's hits really do all sound the same.
