Current events

Today's "funny old world" entry:

France is set to ban the words "mother" and "father" from all official documents under controversial plans to legalise gay marriage.

A daring, brilliant idea that should have happened here instead of Honduras:

Small government and free-market capitalism are about to get put to the test in Honduras, where the government has agreed to let an investment group build an experimental city with no taxes on income, capital gains or sales.

Can't I leave you people alone at all? I'm gone just a week and return to find the 1st Amendment about to be chucked. First, there's this clown:

I think CBS News President David Rhodes was just denying the obvious when he told a conference he was attending that CBS isn't biased, that CBS is indeed a "beacon of unbiased news." He says he consideres it a great day when CBS "takes incoming from both sides" about they handled a story, which is the kind of nonsense we've always spouted in the media to show how "fair" we are. Hey, everybody hates us, so we must be balanced. Or maybe we're just worthy of being hated.

Cool:

Saint Mary's College in South Bend, Ind. is hoping to keep seniors on campus by allowing pets in dorms.

Officials at the four-year Catholic women's college say this fall, one of the residence halls is for seniors only, and, if they choose, their pets.

Wow. How many ways can Obama be like Carter?

Gov. Romney seems to have a tendency to shoot first and aim later,” President Obama said in a CBS interview last night, criticizing Romney’s reaction to the embassy attack in Cairo. Romney criticized the Obama administration’s ‘apology’ in response to the attacks on the embassy and subsequent failure to condemn the attacks right away.

Is he out of his mind?

If Washington really wants to help businesses, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says that politicians need to stop obsessing so much over tax rates.

Last week's Democratic National Convention, in a nutshell:

For such a "progressive" editorial page, The Journal Gazette sure is heavily invested in defending the status quo. Regarding the Chicago teachers' strike, an editorial this morning expressed concern over how unfair it is to demand they be held accountable for student performance. And what's even worse is that Indiana teachers already have to put up with that nonsense!

My vote for meanest town in America goes to: