Current events

Good grief:

Chivalry is pretty much dead, and we got to watch it die, starting in the 60s when some women decided it was sexist in that it promoted the idea of strong men and weak women, an idea that had to be ditched if there was ever to be true equality. We have not leveled the field so much as we have removed one of the biggest connstraints on male aggression. So maybe we should give chivalry another chance:

Cheer up, you sick puppy, at least we don't live in Lousiana:

Indiana has never been considered a leader in public health. We were late to the no-public-smoking party. Soda-size limits, ala New York City, would not fly here. No mountains or seashores compel us to exercise.

"Stuff nobody would believe if you made it up" department:

President Barack Obama, who recently defeated Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, can add another item to his list of honors and awards: Yale and Harvard researchers have named an ancient lizard after the commander-in-chief.

All the progressive left has is "if only more money were spent, the problem would go away," so they have to keep dressing it up. Here's one with a nice little holiday twist -- "We could end homelessness with the money Americans spend on Christmas decorations":

Here's an education-reform idea actually worth supporting -- Abolish Social Studies:

I guess I'm a little surprised it's coming this soon, but we've been talking about this here for a few years -- the obvious need of the Surpeme Court to tackle the gay marriage question. It has decided to review  the federal Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8, both of which make "one man, one woman" the standard.

Mo God, can it be -- a liberal who has finally gotten it?

THIS is what poverty sometimes looks like in America: parents here in Appalachian hill country pulling their children out of literacy classes. Moms and dads fear that if kids learn to read, they are less likely to qualify for a monthly check for having an intellectual disability.

Here's the funniest Monday brightener I've seen in a while -- "Homicide Victims rarely Talk to Police" and Other Horrible Headlines. The poster asks:

(P.S.: Are any of them real?)

The Wall Stree Journal uses Fort Wayne to ilustrate the mismatch today between jobs available and applicants' skills:

FORT WAYNE, Ind.—Unemployment in this Midwest manufacturing city is 6.8%, below the national average, but far above normal historically. There are 14,600 people locally looking for work, about 60% more than six years ago.