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Miller Lite will replace Bud Light on Northwest Airlines. (Via OpinonJournal's Best of the Web)

Funny:

THE TOUGHEST DECISION: SHOULD MY LOVED ONE BE PLACED IN AN ASSISTED COMPUTING FACILITY?

From The Silicon Pines Assisted Computing Facility web site.

I'm sure Medary.com readers are savvy techology users and wouldn't be candidates for Silicon Pines. But someone close to you just might . . .

On second thought, it does sound rather restful . . .

A survey of recent American news site headlines, via Google News:

USA Today, 5/6/05: Job growth explodes in April, up 274,000.

But then, we have:

ABC News/Reuters, 5/6/05: Jobless claims rise more than expected.

Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel/Knight Ridder/Dallas Morning News, 5/6/05: The wrong diagnosis: U.S. economy is slow, but this isn't stagflation.

Sioux Falls Argus Leader/AP, 4/29/05: U.S. economy slumbering.

Bloomberg.com, 4/28/05: U.S. Economy: 1st-Quarter Growth Slowed, Inflation Accelerated.

Then, you have: Washington Times, 5/6/05: Poll: Consumers dour on U.S. economy.

I wonder why? Do you suppose it might be in part because of the steady drip-drip-drip of negative news from our friends in the "mainstream media?" One of the most admirable things about "The Greatest Generation" was that, in the words of the song popularized by Bing Crosby, would "accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative."

It isn't that they had any fewer problems than we did, but it's about how they went about tackling them.

And before you go off about how naive they were back them, remember that when that song was popular, the world was in the midst of a war more terrible than anything happening today, coming on the heels of an economic depression the likes of which today's Boomers, Gen-X'ers, and Millenials can scarcely imagine.

OK, you might file this under "Blognews" if I had such a section. "MadIvan," a fairly regular British poster of the FreeRepublic discussion board announced he was leaving that conservative site after one too many Brit-bashing posts. I had words to say about that and the general condition of political discourse (click "read more" to read my comments):

(p.s. here's a link to one of Mad Ivan's websites, and here's another one.)

Update:
MadIvan has been asked by the FR moderators and lots of others to reconsider his departure.

Aw, geez, what can you say.

The Royals are really bad. Yesterday's meltdown was courtesy the pathetic bullpen.

Northwest Airlines became the third customer of Boeing's new 787 "Dreamliner" (after Continental and start-up Primaris Airlines). Northwest will be the first US carrier to fly the 787.

Best quote I've seen regarding the evolution vs. "intelligent design" debate in Kansas, from 17-year old Kansas high school senior Leanne Colt:

"It's just a silly debate. Science teachers don't shove evolution down our throats. We can make up our own minds."

Give Leanne an A.

Is C-SPAN not mind-numbing enough for you? Well, now you'll be able to tune in on arguments before the Kansas State Supreme Court. Sadly, it's audio only.

Security expert Darren Miller has a bad day. How? Simply by going to a web site sent to him via e-mail. It really is that easy, folks.
The big question: what browser was he using?

Eleven-year-old Tulsa kid leads successful campaign to keep Warner Brothers from destroying the classic Looney Tunes characters. www.saveourlooneytunes.com.