Good grief, what's it gonna take, somebody driving a stake through his heart?
HAVANA (Reuters) - After hearing his unmistakable voice in a good-humored chat played on state television, many Cubans are now convinced Fidel Castro is no longer at death's door and could even return to lead them.
You just knew something like this had to happen sooner or later:
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - Two inmates housed in a smoke-free prison traded a hostage for cigarettes after a six-hour standoff.
They coudn't have had their girlfriends sneak in some with the other illegal drugs?
So, taunting someone about religion is perfectly OK, but taunting someone about sexuality is hate speech?
When a few classmates razzed Rebekah Rice about her Mormon upbringing with questions such as, "Do you have 10 moms?" she shot back: "That's so gay."
This is the editorial I wrote for yesterday's paper expressing doubts about the Fort Wayne Community Schools building rehabilitation plan. Contrast it with The Journal Gazette editorial giving a hearty endorsement to the project. That's the value of having two editorial pages -- on many issues, those still trying to make up their minds can get arguments supporting both sides.
The Anna Nicole Smith saga is now complete. Anna Quindlen has come along to tell me the whole sordid mess is my fault -- and yours, too, by the way:
The Palace is a goner. Is there any point in continuing to pretend Harrison Square is a matter of debate instead of a done deal?
Here's a fun way to feel bad about yourself. Enter your age and find out what other people accomplished when they were the same age.
Thank God it still tastes so good:
Garlic may be good for a lot of things -- spicing up your diet, for sure -- but it seems to be no good at all at lowering your cholesterol.
The self-esteem movement bears fruit:
All the effort to boost children's self-esteem may have backfired and produced a generation of college students who are more narcissistic than their Gen-X predecessors, according to a study led by a San Diego State University psychologist.
The Internet, with all its MySpace.com and YouTube braggadocio, is letting that self-regard blossom even more, said the analysis titled ``Egos Inflating Over Time.''
At one point in the American Revolution, things looked pretty grim for our side, and there were many people who probably decided that we had done the wrong thing. It's too bad we didn't have somebody like Nancty Pelosi and her compatriots to revisit the resolution that got us into the mess and do a little makeover:
I'm glad Helen Mirren won the Oscar for best actress. She's a sexy old broad who can keep the minds of us libidinous old coots off the 22-year-olds at least for a few minutes every once in a while. I've very much enjoyed watching her as Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison in the "Prime Suspect" episodes of "Masterpiece Theatre," a wonderful detective series.
Louis "Judaism is a gutter religion" Farrakhan says God is mad because those of different religious faiths can't get along:
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan stressed religious unity Sunday during his final major speech, saying the world is at war because Christians, Muslims and people of other faiths are divided.
This is why Gov. Daniels' plan to privatize the lottery is a horrible idea, no matter how worthwhile the deeds he wants to fund with the profits:
The Hoosier Lottery has a mediocre track record, with more than half of U.S. lotteries boasting higher sales per resident.[. . .]
The people who assemble our popular cuture, they be dummer and dummer. I pressed the Comcast Digital Cable magic information button for last week's episode of "Jericho," and this is what I saw: "A flashback through the 36 hours before the bombs exploded sheds light on the action of Jake and Hawkins, and reveals Hawkins' compliance in the events." Compliance? I'm guessing "complicity" is what was meant.
Cool show, by the way. Or at least it has hooked me.
Never say it's as silly as it can get when it comes to the state finding things to protect us from. Rather than link to it -- it's short -- I'm reprinting the whole thing so you can appreciate the awesomeness of the idea:
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A state lawmaker is sponsoring a bill that would require the interior designers hired to spruce up Hoosiers' homes and businesses to be registered in the state.
Despite the seemingly innocuous subject matter, this is at least the third year the bill has been debated in the General Assembly.
Of all the prejudices people have, antisemitism has always been the most incomprehensible to me. Just don't get it. But obviously it thrives, even in places like Indianapolis:
This advice comes too late to help Simon Rios, but let it be a lesson to any others who are contemplating the commission of heinous crimes. If you think you might end up pleading not guilty, don't show police where you left the body.
A friend asked me how I would like to be on this jury. I was reminded of something from a movie, perhaps the one about Judge Roy Bean. "I'm going to give you a fair trial and then hang you."
So, if students ar taking tougher courses and getting better grades but are still scoring miserably on national tests, isn't that an indication that, as they say in accounting circles, the books are being cooked?
"I think that we are sleeping through a crisis," said Massachusetts Commissioner of Education David Driscoll, a governing board member. He said the low test scores should push lawmakers and educators to enact school reforms.
The 50 funniest Homer Simpson quotes. My favorite: Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
