Use this thread for talking about whatever you want to talk about. Meanwhile, here’s four more or less arbitrarily chosen items:<\/p>\n
“Only one in seven Americans<\/a> (15 percent) can correctly name John Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States while two-thirds of Americans (66 percent) know at least one of the judges on the Fox television show American Idol.”<\/p>\n In more interesting survey news, a survey of Iraqis<\/a> shows that the majority of Iraqis not only want the US out of Iraq, but thinks that violent attacks on US troops are acceptable. Gee, wonder why they hate us? Oh, wait, yet another new survey of Iraqis<\/a> finds that over a million Iraqis have died due to the US occupation. I guess that’s a good reason to hate us.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida<\/a>, a waiter left his post to tackle a knife-wielding carjacker who was attacking a woman outside the restaurant. The waiter wrestled the carjacker to the ground and, with help from some passerbys, held him until the police arrived. He talked to the cops and the media, returned to the restaurant, and was fired for having left his post.<\/p>\n Finally, my friend Heron61 argues, I think persuasively, that the threat of overpopulation is solving itself<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Use this thread for talking about whatever you want to talk about. Meanwhile, here’s four more or less arbitrarily chosen items: “Only one in seven Americans (15 percent) can correctly name John Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States … Continue reading