Doesn't the whole idea of having a "trendiest teen" of the year sound a little 1950-ish? Maybe that's why an Indiana girl won it:
Doesn't the whole idea of having a "trendiest teen" of the year sound a little 1950-ish? Maybe that's why an Indiana girl won it:
Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for cars and trucks haven't been raised in quite a while. But now, big changes are in the works, and it naturally worries people in the auto industry:
The Big Three automakers believe such strict requirements will be extremely expensive to implement and ultimately will lead to the loss of jobs and fewer choices for the consumer.
Those in favor of the current legislation say it will help reduce the U.S.'s reliance on foreign oil.
President Bush discovers fiscal restraint:
Hey, kid, get rid of that gun before somebody gets hurt:
A fifth-grade promotion ceremony in Rancho Palos Verdes turned into a free-speech battleground Thursday, when students were asked to remove weapons from toys that had been placed on mortarboard caps because of the school's zero-tolerance policy for weapons on campus.
News on the immigration front:
Since 2005, the backlog of legal U.S. immigrants whose applications for naturalization and other benefits are stuck on hold awaiting FBI name checks has doubled to 329,160, prompting a flood of lawsuits in federal courts, bureaucratic finger-pointing in Washington and tough scrutiny by 2008 presidential candidates.
This is just wrong. Someone who doesn't know what she's talking about rates candy and says Skittles are the best. And she even puts circus peanuts and candy corn on the list. Yeech. There is a tie for the best candy: York Peppermint Patties and Reece's Peanut Butter Cups, and they MUST be put in the refrigerator so they can be served cold. I await dissent from the unenlightened loony liberals and rightwing Christian nuts.
I have missed a typo or two in my writing life, and there have been consequences, but usually involving only the derision of friends and the scorn of English teachers. Nothing like this:
WASHINGTON — It was a $100 million mistake, and a federal judge said Friday he doesn't have the power to fix it.
Newsweek has a nationwide take on the issue we've been talking about in Indiana in the wake of the Jack Trudeau hosting-drinking-parties-for-the-kids dilemma:
Danger, danger, fair-weather watch! If any actual sunshine is spotted, the watch will be upgraded to a warning:
How could we get through life these days without sites like snopes.com, which verifies or discredits various urban legends, or The Straight Dope, which has a record of meticulous research and reliability that is unmatched? I went to Straight Dope to find the answer to one of those nagging things that popped into my head a few days ago.
Dang, there goes all our fun:
The initiative cracks down on a wide range of behavior that some say make Berkeley's streets inhospitable to residents and visitors alike. Among the activities that will be banned are smoking near buildings in commercial areas, lying on the sidewalk, public urination and defecation, drinking in public, possessing a shopping cart and shouting in public.
Happy Summer of Love 40th anniversary.
Give thanks for where you live. Even if Harrison Square surpasses all expectations and creates traffic snarls the likes of which we have never seen, downtown Fort Wayne will still not be like downtown Chicago:
There was a gruesome murder in rural Indiana back in April. Two teenagers are alleged to have savagely beaten a man to death, even having the audacity to e-mail a photo of the deed to someone. The crime has been largely ignored by the major media, according to the posts that have been racing through the blogosphere, even though it should have gotten major attention as a Matthew Shepard-like crime.
Sorry, don't believe him:
The agreement, coming after President Bush's pledge earlier today to provide $4.4 billion for border security, revives a bill that had stalled in the Senate and was all but given up for dead.
If we were serious about border security, we'd be following the current law that requires it.
Hey, you, fat kid. Get up from in front of the TV/Gameboy/Internet. Go outside and play, for goodness sake. Oh, wait, never mind:
For the past 25 years, playgrounds have been designed to be so immune from injury lawsuits that they have become downright boring, almost childproof. Often all that's seen on a playground is an expanse of rubbery surfaces. In Broward County, Florida, playgrounds now come with signs that say "No Running."
Americans love the immigration plan, and they want Congress to get it passed, right now!
June 13 (Bloomberg) -- Most Americans back a guest-worker program and a proposal allowing illegal immigrants to become U.S. citizens that were part of legislation the Senate shelved last week after it failed to gain sufficient support.
Despite an information revolution that connects all of us all the time -- or perhaps because of it -- the world has the attention span of a 4-year-old riding in a car:
Little darlings who have to go off to college will now be able to live just like they did in their bedrooms and Mom and Dad's:
