"We've got phoney-baloney jobs up the ying-yang, say America's mayors! All we need is the money to pay for them!" Nick Gillespie on Barack Obama's tired, old change:
When the history of this awful moment of bailout hysteria is written, there'll be a chapter or 20 on the complete bogosity of what might call "the infrastructure flim-flam"—the idea that government can boostrap the economy out its funk by hiring two guys to dig a hole and a couple more to fill it in.
Guess I'd better brace myself for all that extra work I'm going to have to do tomorrow:
People across the country are being urged to skip work Wednesday after calling in "gay."
The loosely organized protest, called "Day Without a Gay," (www.daywithoutagay.org) is intended as a statement against California's ban on same-sex marriage, along with other political developments considered anti-gay.
OK, so Obama hasn't been able to totally quit smoking yet. Who's surprised? Some people think his attempt to duck the question in the Tom Brokaw interview is a symbol of Bigger Things:
If we can't get a straight answer out of Barack Obama about a personal habit like smoking, are we to expect any different with the economy, taxes, defense, spending, or past associations?
Not that I want my president to be spending countless hours obsessively e-mailing with his BlackBerry, but this has always bothered me:
For security reasons Barack Obama was initially told he would need to give up his mobile.
Or maybe not. Apparently the president-elect is feeling a bit too constricted inside the presidential bubble, which is understandably tightly controlled by the Secret Service.
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OK, buddy, wipe that grin off your face, and I mean right now:
Don't say cheese at your next driver's license photo.
The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles is restricting glasses, hats, scarves, and even smiles in driver's license photographs.
BMV officials told The Times of Northwest Indiana that the new rules imposed last month are needed so that facial recognition software can spot fraudulent license applications.
It must be nice to be planning on moving into a four-and-a-half-bath home with servants quarters and having The New York Times call it "downsizing":
City leaders are set to unveil their plans for improving parking downtown.
Officials are under the gun to get plans in motion since they're anticipating traffic to increase downtown when Harrison Square and the new Parkview Field open next year.
A consulting group developed recommendations based on a study of current on-street and private parking situations in the downtown area.
Mike Pence endorses the only half-good idea to come out of Washington in a long time:
I haven't been able to bring myself to open my new Newsweek this week.
Despite the fact that we're witnessing the biggest federal power grab of modern times, some people think we're on the verge of a new Libertarian Era of freedom:
