Current events

Oh, come on:

Think twice the next time you play a videogame or surf the Net: ‘Internet-use disorder’ is set to be added to the list of mental illnesses in the worldwide psychiatric manual. Kids are identified as being especially at risk.

Yes, there is a libertarian case to be made for Mitt Romney:

Obama sees it as his job to add every day to the Rube Goldberg device that Washington has grown into, while simultaneously throwing sand into its gears. If that seems like a contradictory notion, or even a sick notion — it is. But we’ve watched Obama do just that for four years now. How much more can it, can we, take?

Frankly, I'm surprised even 9 percent cooperate:

For decades survey research has provided trusted data about political attitudes and voting behavior, the economy, health, education, demography and many other topics. But political and media surveys are facing significant challenges as a consequence of societal and technological changes.

Holy cow, an honest-to-goodness newspaper war in New Orleans:

When The Times-Picayune decided to print three days a week, a nearby publication saw a chance to expand in the newspaper's backyard and fill a void that for some in the New Orleans area is as much a part of the morning routine as beignets and French coffee.

What with obsessing over the replacement refs (hey, a guy has to have priorities) and interviewing the first batch in the horde of candidates for the November election, I fear I may have missed some major news events I should have blogged about this week. But I'm certainly glad I caught this one, and all I can say is, "Whew!"

It's confirmed -- 45 percent of New Jersey residents are morons:

It’s by a narrow margin, but New Jersey voters actually do support a proposed law that would require dog owners to put their animal in a safety restraint or crate when in the car.

This week's sign that End Times are near:

If this is true, it's a reason to be at least a little hopeful for the future of this country:

Om CBS's "60 Minutes," Sunday, President Obama responded to Steve Kroft's mention that the national debt has climbed 60 percent on the president's watch by claiming that the defict increase is only 10 percent his fault: "When I came into office, I inherited the biggest deficit in our history. And over the last four years, the deficit has gone up, but 90% of that is as a consequence of two wars that weren't paid for, as a consequence of tax cuts that weren't paid for, a prescription drug plan that was not paid for, and then the worst economic crisis since the Great Depressi

Some things are just so breathtakingly stupefying that it's hard to even know what to say:

In remarks this morning to the Clinton Global Initiative, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proposed a radical idea: a global tax on elites around the world.