Current events

Don't let the door hit you on the way out:

What might this country look like after a couple more generations of complete dependence on government? Don't want to scare you, but . . .

Guess they'll just have to go back to relying on absolute terror. I mean, if you're not going to demand a show of love and affection, you better get respect, right?

Well, hell, then, let's send him in to get that fiscal-cliff deal done:

Lot of discussion out there about the dramatic photo on Page 1 of the New York Post of a man on the subway tracks just moments before the train hits him. Should ther Post have used it at all, or put it on an inside page? Could/should the photographer tried to help the victim instead of taking the photo?

I don't want to fuel anybody's paranoid fantasies, but welcome to the surveillance state:

You knew this was coming, right?

HURON, SD -Huron is the latest city in South Dakota to ban texting while driving.

My favorite headline so far this week -- "The least-trusted jobs in America: Congress members and car salespeople." People from the medical profession take the top three spots -- nurses, pharmacists and doctors. Advertising practitioners and stockbrokers join the politicians and salespeople at the bottom:

No ego problem there, eh?

CNSNews.com) – Chicago, a city plagued by gangs, murder and a failing public education system, is the most American of cities, says Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Is handwriting worth saving? Probably not, since is is simply "not the clearest way to communicate if expressing what you mean swiftly, and being understood, is your primary purpose." But we will be poorer for the loss: