SNIPPETS

MARCH 30,  2010

From Fox Business:  What's the value of a pint of beer? Let the market decide, says a new restaurant in Manhattan where prices for food and beverages will fluctuate like stock prices in increments according to demand.  The Exchange Bar & Grill, set amid the bustling shops and pubs of the Grammercy Park neighborhood, is replete with a ticker tape flashing menu prices in red lettering as demand forces them to fluctuate.

Great idea.  Now watch, Obama will march in and impose price controls.

MARCH 29,  2010

THERMAL, Calif. (AP) - A Southern California school teacher has been arrested for allegedly teaching while drunk.  Toro Canyon Middle School teacher Tonya Neff was taken to the Indio jail Tuesday afternoon and booked for investigation of felony child endangerment.

Maybe this explains some of the stuff being taught.

MARCH 28,  2010

ROSCOMMON, Ireland, March 27 (UPI) -- Two incompetent thieves who threw priceless 4,000-year-old Irish jewelry into a dumpster have received suspended sentences for the crime.  Robert Dempsey and Anthony Dowling, both Dublin residents, were given consideration because they helped police locate the national treasures, The Irish Times reported.

Time off for dumbness.  What a concept.

MARCH 27,  2010

EXNING, England, March 26 (UPI) -- A British widow said she took her husband's ashes on the 60,000-mile world tour he always wanted in life but never had because of his fear of flying.

He found the ideal way to cure that fear.