Current Affairs

I'll just say what I did in an earlier post about gourmet coffee -- throw in a Hooter's-costumed woman who will rub my feet, and I might go $7.50:

Newsweek's for sale.  What would you pay for it?

It has been my experience that corpses do not care all that much about awards:

NATO commanders are weighing a new way to reduce civilian casualties in Afghanistan: recognizing soldiers for "courageous restraint" if they avoid using force that could endanger innocent lives.

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Weren't the 70s supposed to be the "Me Decade"? When did that end, exactly?

Good call:

It was to be a celebration, but a federal agency in charge of offshore drilling has postponed next week's annual luncheon in Houston, which was to extol the safety record of offshore oil drilling.

I guess my definitions of "authentic" and "life of truth" must differ a little from John Edwards' definitions, or at least from Rielle Hunter's:

Help him do what?" asked Oprah, speaking for us all.

"See his authentic self. Be more his authentic self so people could see who he really was," Rielle offered.

"And how were you planning on doing that?" asked Oprah.

Not everyone is on board with a new Navy policy (hey, don't blame me, the lousy pun was in the headline):

Despite concerns from critics over privacy, costs and the possibility of sexual activity, the Navy says it's ready, willing, able, and now ready to put women on submarines.

If we put that story together with this one,

A few years ago, I saw an episode of some sitcom in which one character said to another, "Well. it looks like somebody is missing the prize in his Happy Meal." It was a pop-culture image thrown in to describe someone's glumness because the writer knew it was a reference most in the audience would get.  And that's the problem, damn it!

"Think Again: The Internet" is a good read in Foreign Policy magazine which argues that the Web isn't as earth-shattering as it is cracked up to be. It hasn't ushered in a new era of freedom, political activism and perpetual peace and isn't likely to anytome soon:

Oh, sure, this is a much better solution than letting law-abiding citizens arm themselves:

By God, I love science:

CHICAGO - Can cleavage cause an earthquake? Women all over the country are testing the theory.

It all started with a blog post from Purdue University senior, Jennifer McCreight. She was upset over comments a senior Iranian cleric made about women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously.

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