weird stuff (headlines of the day)

Bad news: Headline: Sadam the Poet readies for the hangman
Yes, and Adolf was an artist, Mao an athlete, and Eichman a loving husband and father.
Good News: We now have a scientific "depravity scale" to weigh how evil a person is...LINK

Bad News: a judge decides a high school diploma is not earned by effort or competency, but by victimhood..."It is hard to be poor. It is hard to grow up in a place where there is a lot of crime," said Ibanez, a Mexican immigrant who attends school in the San Francisco Bay area city of Richmond. "No one will be hurt if we get our diploma."...
umm...ever hear of something called "studying"?

Bad news:Tony Snow is emailing the MSM about their stories, pointing out when they ignore or overlook things, and the MSM is not impressed...how dare the White House imitate the blogosphere and question their stories...
Good News: It seems that bloggers are changing the way stories are covered...especially by catching mistakes...
Bad news: Reporter of blogger story made a mistake. He states that a "blogger (named) Buckhead" who exposed the Dan Rather tapes. Um, fellah...Buckhead was a commentator on a discussion website named Free Republic (i.e. a "freeper" not a blogger). The bloggers who ran with the story was Powerline and LGF...

Bad News: no goose liver pate in Chicago...duh...
first they came for my cigarettes, then they came for my pate...then they came for my French Fries...and IceCream...

Good news: Labour unrest in China.The exploitation of Chinese workers is little covered, even by those organizations that decry third world sweatshops.They are now starting to ask for their basic rights.
If they give their workers a living wage, it will mean factories might move here, where wages are higher than China. Right now, China is exporting cheap goods that undermines many local businesses...

Good news: Jury: "customer of size" not victim of airline bias....
Bad news: So, I'm not fat. I'm merely a "customer of size"....