By Restless
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration and Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page as well as Contributing Editor of National Review. He’s written an assessment of the situation now that the Democrats have won majorities in both houses.
excerpts:
It only took six years for Americans […]

 
See! I knew it!  I knew I wasn’t 40 yet.  whewww.
From CNN.COM:
Americans: 60’s are the new middle age
LONDON, England (Reuters) — Cosmetic surgery is altering not just how people look but how they feel by changing perceptions of middle age, a new study shows.
Global research group AC Nielsen surveyed people in 42 countries and found […]

From YahooNews: 
Writers put brave face on bad sex awards
LONDON (Reuters) - There cannot be much good in bad sex, unless maybe it wins you a prize.
Two authors put on a brave face at being recognised for one of literatures most dubious accolades — the Bad Sex in Fiction Award — in a ceremony at In […]

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By Restless
“When I graduated from college in the 1960s, the average CEO made 20 times what the average worker made. Today, that CEO makes 400 times as much. Working Americans have been repeatedly seduced at the polls by emotional issues such as the predictable mantra of “God, guns, gays, abortion and the flag” while their […]

Ok it’s a spoof,  but the sad thing is, you read the “Article” and you come to realize that as stupid as it sounds, it’s really not that far off from what the intelligent-design whack jobs would love to see happen.
From The Onion: 
Kansas Outlaws Practice Of Evolution
TOPEKA, KS—In response to a Nov. 7 referendum, Kansas […]

Very well done stop motion animation, it must have been a lot of work to make.

From MSNBC.COM: 
Missing woman found dead behind bookcase
Family thinks she fell over trying to adjust TV plug 11 days before discover
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. - A woman’s body was found wedged upside-down behind a bookcase in the home she shared with relatives who had spent nearly two weeks looking for her.
A spokesman for the Pasco County […]

 
By Restless
An Iraqi comedian, Walid Hasaan, who brought much-needed laughter to that people through his skits on Alsharqiya, an independent channel there, was found dead. “He was a star in the galaxy of Iraqi arts,” said Ali Hanoon, the show’s director. “Now, he’s another sacrifice on the altar of this slaughtered country.”
He worked for the […]

From MSNBC.COM: 
Man accused of spray-painting three goats
‘Obviously it’s not an occurrence you see every day,’ officer says
MAHOPAC, N.Y. - A man broke into a barn on Thanksgiving morning, spray-painted three pet goats and scattered pages of pornographic magazines on the floor, apparently to harass the property owner, police said Tuesday.
Drew Gagnon, 37, of Mahopac, was […]

Watching this brings back memories of playing Intellivision Basketball with my brother, and going to the arcade in High School.
Anyone remember when the movie Tron came out? We used to think “Wow… some day computer graphics will look like that!” and now it all looks so hokey.

From MSNBC.COM:
War protester’s fiery suicide provokes questions
Man’s flaming body was meant to be a symbol of rage, but no one listened
CHICAGO - Malachi Ritscher envisioned his death as one full of purpose.
He carefully planned the details, mailed a copy of his apartment key to a friend, created to-do lists for his family. On his Web […]

From YahooNews:
Doctors: Face transplant was successful
PARIS - A year after a Frenchwoman received the world’s first partial face transplant, doctors say the operation was a success and she is gaining more and more sensitivity and facial mobility.
As British and American doctors work on plans for a first full-face transplant, the medical team at the hospital […]

 
Aww that’s so sad,  Elizabth Dole has to send out begging letters to get the Republican party out of debt.  I guess all those robo-calls, and racist attack ads against the Ford campaign cost a lot more than they thought they would.  I’m sure their die-hard supporters will cough up the bucks, after all they […]