Can barely afford platinum-plated toilet paper anymore
-Well boo-fuckin'-hoo...-
A wire story reports that living like you're Paris Hilton is getting really expensive. Forbes's Cost of Living Extremely Well Index (CLEWI), which measures the cost of insanely expensive crap that no one actually needs, found that the cost of "luxury goods" rose 6% in the last year -- more than twice the rate of inflation.
Items listed in the story include a "Hermes crocodile-skin bag" worth $213,100, wide-body private jets that go for $150 million, a yearling race horse worth $710,247, and a russian sable coat at Bloomingdale's for $225,000.
What, no Faberge egg-powered Bentleys? Clearly, these guys need more tax breaks. (Reuters)
-Headline of the day-
"Taser this FUCK BUSH." A column in the Colorado State University paper, Rocky Mountain Collegian, ran that headline. It was also the entirety of the column.
According to the report, "'We felt that maybe four words were more impactful than 250,' said Dave McSwane, the paper's editor, in a segment shown on CNN's American Morning. The wording of the editorial was agreed upon by the Collegian's seven-member board."
Brevity is the soul of wit. (Raw Story)
-Quote of the day-
It's been a while since I've done a QotD. Nobody's said anything especially worthwhile lately, I guess. Anyhoo, here goes.
"I'm just a little bit shocked myself that a college in good standing would back up students who insist that people who have been through college and have a master's degree, a couple actually, have to teach that there were such things as talking snakes or lose their job," said Steve Bitterman, who was fired for saying the story of Adam and Eve wasn't literally true in his class at Southwestern Community College in IA.
See, here's the thing, you don't pay teachers to teach you bullshit. You pay them to teach facts. Any moron can teach creationist horseshit, which is probably why so many morons do. The students who complained need to do a little explaining here -- if they didn't want to be educated, why the hell did they throw their money away on tuition?
Next up, students who take an astronomy class get offended that the Earth orbits the sun. (Des Moines Register)
