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Politics and other nightmares

Talk is cheap

These kids today don't know how lucky they have it. They're about to have a "when I was your age" moment to share with their grandchildren:

President Barack Obama will tell the nation's schoolchildren today he expects "great things from each of you."

Yoo-hoo, here comes reality

Compromising positions

What a lot of garbage

It's like they had a secret meeting or something. Evansville:

If the City Council adopts proposals by the city's Water & Sewer Utility, starting next year, Evansville residents will receive two new 96-gallon containers — one for trash and the other for recyclable refuse.

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14 minutes and counting

Levi Johnston has managed a remarkable achievement-- he's made even the New York Times's Gail Collins feel sympathy for Sarah Palin:

Birght & shining, blah, blah, blah

On the wrong path

This so-called "group of experts" must be delusional. President Obama has assured us that such things could never happen, and anybody who says otherwise is just a rightwing crank:

Patients with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under an NHS scheme to help end their lives, leading doctors have warned.

In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death.

A nifty work-release program

People often say of government employees, "Oh, they're nothing but a bunch of crooks." Occasionally, they are right:

Richmond city officials are still unsure how a woman who spent six months in prison for theft and forgery in Madison County, Ind., was hired as office manager at the Richmond Street Department eight months after her release.

Didn't we just go through this?

Nice work if you can get it

Imagine a company that lets everything it touches spin out of control and always spends more than it takes in, creating an enormous debt that can never be paid off and that threatens everything the company wants to do in the future. What should happen to the employees of that company? Fire them all? Give them a severe reprimand and a drastic cut in pay? No, silly:

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