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Monday, January 12, 2004

Madonna's unconscious effort to get involved
"Our greatest risk is a lack of leadership, a lack of honesty and a complete lack of consciousness."

Sunday, January 11, 2004

Don't lose bad habits -- find study to support them
Yes. You make resolutions to eat a more healthful diet, get more exercise, quit drinking and smoking . . .

Thursday, January 8, 2004

Ashes to ashes, we'll all fall down
"I haven't heard an update on the Yellowstone Caldera in quite a while. Is it safe to assume that the threat has passed?"

Wednesday, January 7, 2004

Bush Doctrine: Strike workers before they do
News Item: "The Labor Department is giving employers tips on how to avoid paying overtime to some of the 1.3 million low-income workers who would become eligible under new rules expected to be finalized early this year."

Tuesday, January 6, 2004

He's flirting with some extremist views
"I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags on their pickup trucks. . ."

Monday, January 5, 2004

What does it mean in the cosmic sense?
News Item: Russian mathematician appears to have solved the century-old Poincare Conjecture, which states that every simply connected closed three-manifold is homeomorphic to the three-sphere (in a topologist's sense), where a three-sphere is simply a generalization of the usual sphere to one dimension higher.

Sunday, January 4, 2004

Executives continue to give businesses the business
News Item: Tyson Foods CEO compensation is doubled to $20.9 million as profits fall 12 percent.

NU's 'Dyche Curse' alive and well
"I almost thought of expanding the curse," Beres said. "If I'd expanded it to include all the bowl games, I could have saved Northwestern the embarrassment of losing to Bowling Green in a Motor City Bowl.

Wednesday, December 31, 2003

Earth's orbit may be rotten to its core
News Item: International Earth Rotation Service finds that Earth is no longer slowing in its orbit around the sun, as it steadily has been in the past.

Tuesday, December 30, 2003

Larry Flynt, you've met your match
To think we had the solution staring us in the face all this time.

Knowledge is dangerous

Monday, December 29, 2003

Terrorism no match for runaway capitalism
News Item: Associated Press survey finds that newspaper editors and news directors, in their Top 10 Stories of 2003, considered the Elizabeth Smart murder a more important story that the presidential campaign.

Sunday, December 28, 2003

Awards to the not-so-wise
It is time for the Second Annual QT Awards. These follow the First Annual QT Awards, which were given in 1997.

Wednesday, December 24, 2003

Santa not the only one with Christmas suit
News Item (October): Harris Survey finds that 30 percent of Democrats have heard of presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich.

Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Downfall of civilization closer than you think
"There are those who wake up every morning determined to destroy Western civilization. ..."

Monday, December 22, 2003

Christmas spirit has some firm support
News Item (Dec. 15): San Antonio Shoe, a shoe manufacturer with a plant in Pittsfield, Maine, gives Christmas bonus to its 900 workers of $1,000 for each year worked at the plant, citing its gratitude for their hard work.

Sunday, December 21, 2003

Maybe good news does cell newspapers
News Item: Member ejected from session of British House of Commons for using his cell phone.

Thursday, December 18, 2003

What they don't know could hurt everyone
News Item: Study finds that 29 percent of recent American high school graduates can't find the Pacific Ocean on a map and 11 percent can't find the United States.

Wednesday, December 17, 2003

There's no place like an undisclosed place
News Item: "Vice President Cheney remained at an undisclosed location. . . ."

Tuesday, December 16, 2003

Big Blue making its workers just that
IBM plans to cut the jobs of as many as 4,730 American workers as part of a program to increase profits by shifting jobs to China and India.

Bush's flying circus

Monday, December 15, 2003

Saddam needs help with his new look
News Item: "U.S. forces said they found Saddam Hussein, long-haired, bearded and bedraggled, in a hole on a farm near his hometown of Tikrit."