- The state of New Hampshire is guaranteeing a loan to a newspaper, with taxpayers on the hook if there’s a default. Is it a good idea for a state to be propping up a newspaper? Will they be changing their name to Pravda?
- A Middle School in North Carolina is strapped for cash, and the usual candy sale didn’t bring in enough money. So they’re trying something different: They’re selling better grades. For $20, you get 10 extra points each on two tests. At this point we’ve basically given up on teaching kids anything. They’re just taxpayer funded babysitters.
- A man sent flowers and a get well card to the Fort Hood shooter. He says the Holy Spirit told him to.
- Good news: Sam Zell says that there will not be a commercial real estate crash. Considering the fact that he was the man who ran the Tribune Company into the ground, I’d take what he says with a big honkin’ grain of salt.
- Poll position: Gallup now has the Republicans up be four points in their generic congressional poll. Meanwhile Pew says that anti-incumbent sentiment is at its highest level in two decades. And of course Rasmussen has Obama’s approval rating is all the way down to 46%.
- Rod Blagojevich was number 15 on Mad Magazine’s “Untrustables” list.
- 10 states are facing looming disasters. You’d better believe that Illinois is one of them.
- Greatest headline in history: Quadriplegic NJ man gets right to bear arms.
- Sammy Sosa Skin Update: Sammy says that he may endorse the skin cream that turned his skin white. I’m reminded of the American Express commercial from Major League.
- End of The World Update: They’re getting closer… An asteroid passed 8,700 miles from Earth on Friday. It was only 23 ft wide, so it would have burned up in the atmosphere anyway.
- Dude, where’s my car?: Feds find hippie’s van 35 years after it was stolen.