If this year seems a bit longer than last year, that's because it is. In addition to leap day in February, the official timekeepers of the world are going to add an extra second to this year because the earth's rotation is slowing down.
To respond to rockets being fired into their country, Israel is bombing the Gaza Strip in what they're calling an "all-out war" on Hamas. Iran's Ayatollah is ordering Muslims everywhere to defend the Palestinians. What Iran won't admit is that they are responsible for training and arming the thugs of Hamas.
The state of Oregon has decided that, thanks to people driving more fuel-efficient cars (isn't that what they wanted?), the gas tax is no longer enough to fund transportation. Their solution is to scrap the gas tax and instead use satellites to monitor and tax driving by the mile. The New York Times (which, ironically, is trying to sell its share of the Boston Red Sox) has exactly the opposite idea; they want to raise the gas tax to make sure that gas never costs less than between $4 and $5 a gallon.
Harry Reid might be in some trouble as he looks towards re-election in 2010. Wouldn't it be nice to knock off consecutive Democrat Senate leaders?
Did Barack Obama break the law when he scattered his grandmother's ashes?
Somebody did a little bit of checking, and it turns out that the estimates of 3 million jobs being lost if the Big Three didn't get their bailout were made up by the automakers and the UAW.
A Saudi columnist called for abolishing the religious police in Saudi Arabia, so his newspaper fired him.
Blago might not be Obama's only pay-for-play problem; now Obama's choice for Commerce Secretary, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, is being investigated for giving state bonds to a reliable campaign contributor.
According to one columnist in the Daily Telegraph, 2008 will be looked back upon as the year that man-made global warming was disproved.
A Russian professor is predicting the end of the United States of America in 2010.
Isn't it nice to live in a free country?
Racist warning: Murders among black youths have increased 40% since 2000. That can't possibly have anything to do with the gangsta rap culture, could it?
The Eastern United States' biggest polluter, the Tennessee Valley Authority, will have to clean up over a billion gallons of coal waste in Tennessee.
Teenagers who pledge abstinence are more likely to have unprotected sex.
That love story of a girl who threw apples to a boy in a concentration camp turned out to be a hoax.
The State of Georgia will require carbon monoxide detectors in most new residential construction beginning January 1.
Some state lawmakers don't like the fact that the lottery commission is giving bonuses to its staff members despite state cutbacks. Sorry guys, but if the lottery commission makes money then it should be able to spend it on the people who made it the money.
This shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody: college athletes perform significantly worse on the SAT than their real-student counterparts.
The company that makes Spanx is now going to start making girdles for men. I'll pass.
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