Current Affairs

More than a little scary, this:

Another milestone in the annals of government "job creation":

WINCHESTER, VA. - The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month, marking a small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison's innovations in the 1870s.

The remaining 200 workers at the plant here will lose their jobs.

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President Obama says the intended Quran burning by that freak and his nutjob followers in Florida would be a recruitment bonanza for al-Qaida:

"This could increase the recruitment of individuals who'd be willing to blow themselves up in American cities or European cities."

If you're an older adult planning on emulating the lieutenant govenor and going back to college for that degree, good luck on getting help from the state:

After two decades of consistent growth, adult students -- defined by most educators as those 25 and up -- are now the majority in Indiana.

This story lost me at the very first sentence:

Richard M. Daley's 21-year run as mayor will end next spring with the city broadly reshaped by his vision and unprecedented grip on power, but with his image as Chicago's sure-handed leader increasingly challenged.

Yes, Bush got the ball rolling, but his deficit crimes were mere misdemeanors, and Obama is the felon:

Every time some university reasearchers come out with a whopping big survey designed to show us a great truth based on what several thousand people say they feel about things, it just underscores what a silly designation "social scientist" really is:

They say money can't buy happiness. They're wrong.

At least up to a point.

Today's "back to school" spot-the-insensitivity special. This one?

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Cancer has ravaged several of Ann Aberson's relatives, so she doesn't have a problem with her two teenage daughters wearing bracelets to raise awareness of breast cancer.

But their school principal does.

Time magazine wanders into the Hoosier state in search of an answer to it's headlined question, "How Barack Obama Became Mr. Unpopular":

A sense of disappointment, bordering on betrayal, has been growing across the country, especially in moderate states like Indiana, where people now openly say they didn't quite understand the President they voted for in 2008. The fear most often expressed is that Obama is taking the country somewhere they don't want to go.

Today's headline needing no further comment: "You know, it's never a good idea to moon a state trooper."