Friday, January 13, 2006
Whoa
Today has been an extremely eclectic day in the news. Maybe because it's Friday the 13th ... who knows. I think it's a full moon as well.
The lowlights:
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The lowlights:
- An article on CNN.com listing the 20 "meanest" cities with respect to the homeless (NYC is 14, DC isn't on the list, Ft. Lauderdale is #1.)
- An article in the NYT about how the owners of "megayachts" (yachts over 200 ft. long and costing up to $200 million) are having a hard time finding docks that can fit them. As a consequence, the owners are "forced" to dock just offshore and lower dinghies to get to land (horror of horrors!).
- An article in the NYT about a MN state appellate judge who learned some tough lessons about the criminal justice system after he himself was convicted of a felony for stealing $400,000 from a mentally challenged person.
- Paul Bremer admits that he made "some mistakes" in Iraq.
- A spacecraft will be delivering "space dust" back to Earth.
- Demographers estimate that the 300 millionth American will be born in October. The 200 millionth was born in 1967. Proving that media stupidity is not a new development, Time magazine undertook a nationwide search for the 200 millionth baby. How did they do it? They took the baby that was born closest to the exact time that the Census Dept. predicted the 200 millionth would be born according to their "population clock" -- yes there is actually a population clock. (They estimate a new American every 14 seconds -- one born every 8, one dies every 12, one new immigant every 31.) The 200 millionth baby is the son of Chinese immigrants, was born in Atlanta, went to Harvard for undergrad and law school, and is now a litigation partner at King & Spalding. He represents tobacco companies in class actions ... God bless America. It is estimated that the 100 millionth American was born in 1915.
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