After Today, The Foibles Of Kanye West Will No Longer Constitute "Breaking Political News," Maybe
You, the worker, have actually been getting paid more, not less, over the last year.* (*Except if you are unemployed. Salaries of the unemployed have been comparatively static.) [ New York Times ]
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has joined most of Congress in thinking Obama's idea about a new surge in Afghanistan is in fact a terrible one. [ Times Online ]
Bill Clinton, on one of his bimonthly goodwill visits to Earth, has endorsed attractive Californian Gavin Newsom for the position of Governor of California. [ Los Angeles Times ]
Police announced that Blagojevich's former gal Friday, Christopher Kelley, who died of an overdose last weekend had previously tried to die of an overdose. [ Chicago Tribune ]
Some religious Southwesterners are fighting to keep Big Government from taking away their constitutional right to brew psychedelic tea, which ... helps them with their God. [ WSJ ]
Here is your CLOSURE: Kanye West has apologized to Hilary Duff for his failure to observe congressional protocol. She was like, "Fine." The end. [ CNN ]