What? No one'e ever heard of eloping?

People have a right to protest.

But there’s always someone who takes things too far.

Mutilating yourself because your family is being snobby about your girlfriend is no way to go about the ticklish business of marriage.

Why not elope?

For the whole, sad story, go here.

Guilty!

The Gipper was not your friend, devoted Reagan cult members.

In fact, he was an enemy of the people. Well, at least working- and middle-class people.

Have a look at Paul Krugman’s fine op-ed piece at the New York Times.

It's a snappy look, Poindexter, but it'll cost ya.

The cost of renting caps and gowns is too expensive for some families on tight budgets and the graduates either require some help to acquire the appropriate atire or forgo the event.

However, in some communities, people are pitching in to help.

Read all about the problem here.

"Look! Up in the sky! It's a ... balloon."

Scottsdale office worker Marshall Valentine described the balloon as, well, what you’d expect a balloon to look like. “It looks like someone blew a bubble in the sky and it stayed there.”

Everybody can now back to what they were doing before they saw the balloon.

Don't leave home without it!

That’s about 6% of the firm’s global workforce.

While a number of affected workers were notified of the layoffs in recent days, company spokeswoman Joanna Lambert said the rest will be informed later. That always makes for a pleasant situation. .

The recent layoffs follow the 7,000 layoffs announced in October of last year.

Job security? Don’t leave home without it.

Time to look elsewhere when ordering sex online.

Craigslist, the online classified ads service, is dropping its “erotic services” listings after increased pressure from lawmakers.

The company will replace the ads in seven days with a new adult-oriented category that will be reviewed and screened by company employees.

Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster, who recently stated he didn’t believe that the erotic service ads were “sex related,” was unavailable for comment.

For more, visit here.

Rent-a-cops don't like having their pictures taken.

The rent-a-cops didn’t like that and threatened shutterbug Shane Becker with a tackling if he tried to leave the store.

Real police offiers then arrived and took Becker into custody. After 30 minutes spent handcuffed in a cell, Becker was released … but not without a stern warning that referenced 9/11.

Becker also had to sign an official REI document that bans him from entering the store for one year.

Oddly, the arresting officers never asked to see the offending photo and Becker was not asked to delete it from his phone.

For the whole story, please visit Gizmodo.

2010: Year of the Bible?

The Daily Kos is reporting that Rep. Paul Broun [R-GA] has introduced a resolution to encourage the president to declare 2010 as The Year Of The Bible.

Broun’s managed to assemble a fairly large list of co-sponsors for his resolution.

With unemployment at staggering levels, two wars and a raging recession, creating a  “year of the bible” is the burning issue for some elected officials?

Oh, brother, we are doomed.

Now, why would you want to go and sodomize these poor little folks?

The Human Rights League of the Great Lakes, a local advocacy group, issued a statement that read, “Some soldiers from the 85th Brigade sodomised three male pygmies to gain supernatural powers and protection in Kisa village in Walikale territory.

“The village chief was stripped and (sodomised) in the presence of his wife, his children and daughter in-law.

“The children in turn were stripped and raped in front of their father.”

If ever the adage “pick on someone your won size” applied …

For more, go here.

Looking for potential candidates ... and investigating them.

The pay’s solidly middle-of-the-road, and you get to strike fear in the hearts of your fellow Americans, but don’t think getting in the door will be easy. There are requirements. Check out what they are by going here.