On the occasion of President Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, the Dalai Lama showed himself to be the master of tactful understatement:
'I think if you are realistic, it may have been a little early but it doesn't matter, I know Obama is a very able person.'
The Tibetan leader also warned President Obama against relying too much on his advisers.
Home ownership may be the American dream, but it's nice to keep the renters happy, too:
The good guys win one:
RICHMOND, Va. — A 90-year-old Medal of Honor recipient can keep his 21-foot flagpole in his front yard after a homeowner's association dropped its request to remove it, a spokesman for Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner said Tuesday.
The Sussex Square homeowners' association likewise has agreed to drop threats to take legal action against retired Col. Van T. Barfoot, Warner spokesman Kevin Hall said.
Guess we should stop arguing about climate change. It's real, and it's dangerous. We know this because The Associated Press has declared it so, not in an opinion piece but in the middle of a straight news story:
Has anybody in the history of celebrity ever gone from got it made to total disrepute quite so quickly?
Our federal stimulus dollars at work:
Columbus City Schools have more than 120 buildings designed for teaching.
But in a three-day effort to teach its teachers, the district is renting banquet halls, high-end hotels and conference centers -- using almost $145,000 in federal grant dollars.
Here's an interesting juxtaposition for you.
A nominee for the best conspiracy theory ever, via hit & run:
In the opinion of Arlington [Tennessee] Mayor Russell Wiseman, President Barack Obama's speech on Tuesday night on the war in Afghanistan was deliberately timed to block the Christian message of the "Peanuts" television Christmas special.
It's a Charlie Brown Christmas we demand,
I haven't seen a lot of zombie movies, but I still remember with fond dread the original "Night of the Living Dead" -- an ever-dwindling band of heroic real people withstanding the relentless march of the undead. I swear, it feels more and more like that in the newspaper business these days. Today was an especially bad day.
Hope you weren't planning on E.T. landing anywhere around here, because it is Denver that has the welcome mat out:
Reporting from Denver and Las Vegas -
Forget sky-high unemployment and those two wars overseas. Jeff Peckman has more earthly concerns:
For one thing, if extraterrestrials were to descend on Denver, what's the best way to welcome them?
