More and more people are moving from places they’ve lived all their lives, and dealing with separation from their family because there just aren’t jobs where they live. Would you be willing to uproot yourself to find work? Have things gotten that bad?- Naperville has banned people from throwing candy during parades. They are worried that kids rushing for candy might get run over… I can see how that would be kind of a bummer on parade day. Wise precaution or just more Big Brother. Back in my day when we were run over by a parade float they just told us to walk it off.
- Scott Lee Cohen still says that he has no intention of dropping out of the race. He says that he wants his ex-girlfriend to talk about their little incident. What’s she going to say, “It was all in good fun”?
- Blago was re-indicted on corruption charges.
- Moment of Racial Insensitivity: In honor of Black History month, the NBC cafeteria served fried chicken, collard greens, and jalapeno cornbread.
- Proving that we still don’t quite roll over for everything China wants… yet, President Obama will meet with the Dalai Lama this month. So he’s got that going for him… which is nice.
- Obamamania is officially over. The Obama store at Union Station in Washington, DC has closed. You’d think the White House would really want those jobs to be saved or created.
- A teenager in New Zealand is auctioning off her virginity to pay for college. Books are almost as bad as tuition, she may have to sell naming rights to her first both child to pay for books. If you’re going to do something like that you could at least come up with an original idea, it seems like someone does this once a year.
- Awesome: A New York woman has been cited for using a mannequin to drive in the carpool lane.
- Health desk: A new study indicates brain activity in patients considered in a “vegetative state,” with evidence of awareness, intent, and, in one case, a wish to communicate. Terri Schiavo was unavailable for comment.
- Bad news for Miami: Experts are saying that the economic impact of the Super Bowl is overblown.
- Mullet of the day update: A 5 year old is being kept from school because he refuses to get a haircut. Party in the front, truancy in the back.
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Keith Conrad
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