Does anybody think that Larry the Cable Guy would be so emminently sucessful if boys out there were being properly educated? No.

Boys face a number of daunting challanges that girls do not face (testosterone for one), and yet there is not one boys only educational initiative being funded at either the state or the federal level. There are, however, a large number of programs aimed at helping girls. The end result is obvious. Lower graduation rates for boys. Lower grades for boys.

Blaming this on "complacency" is correct, but it isn't boys being complacent. It is the educational system being complacent with boys.

>Credit card companies are about the smartest, most data-focused marketers around. They don't extend credit willy-nilly.

In an age when stories abound of pets and the deceased receiving preapproved credit card offers, clearly the credit card companies are extending credit willy-nilly. That is not to say that they aren't smart.

The difference is that now the bankruptsy laws are much less forgiving of consumers making borrowing errors, and MUCH MORE forgiving of lenders making lending mistakes. Extending credit willy-nilly is now a risk with no potential downside. So, smart data-focused marketers of credit cards are flooding the market with as much credit as consumers will take on.

Everything that Uncle Joe has done for us, or against us rather, has happened AFTER Gore picked him as the VP candidate. Therefore Al Gore made his judgement based on the old Joe not the "new" joe, and therefore is entirely not responsible for Joe's actions. Joe Leiberman is simply the new Zell Miller. A once solid Democrat who sided up just a little too close with the tyrant that nearly ALL democrats want to see out of office. In the famous words of that very tyrant... Joe: You are either with us or against us.

Thank you for inserting a brand new lie into the Duke story. Nowhere in that News & Observer does is say that there was DNA all over the house. Having DNA in both the bathroom and a towel (i.e. a bathroom item) is a pretty far stretch from "all over." It is essentially in one location.

The daily bias against men in Broadsheet is irritating, and the fact that there is no Dudesheet in Salon is further evidence of your one sided take on reality. But, inventing a "fact" like this is a journalistic sin, and you should be ashamed of yourself.

It sounds good until products start disappearing from the market entirely, with no replacement. To add further insult to injury, RoHS excludes a number of products that have NO environmental impact at all. Removing these from the market is simply a loss for all humankind.

Nikon has announced that they are discontinuing their venerable 28mm f1.4 lens because the lead content in the glass does not meet RoHS standards. Since this was a small production specialty lens, it is not being replaced or upgraded at all. Totally absent from the market. No fast aperature wide angle lens exists anymore for the Nikon mount.

Since the lead in the lens glass is sealed in a metal tube, there is no environmental impact of any kind to the lead content. Tell it to the beauracrats though. They get paid to enforce RoHS, not to enforce sanity.

I'm disappointed in Morgan for rigging the minimum wage episode. First off, let me say that minimu wage sucks, and a family cannot live off it. In fact, he could have easily done an accurate show showing this, but he didnt.

Almost $500 of the "monthly" budget went to the deposits associated with moving into a new city (apartment and utility deposits). This huge expense is not at all a normal part of a monthly budget, and furthermore that money is refunded at the end of the rental contract (assuming that our minimum wage couple doesn't trash the place). A normal monthly family budget is hard enough to meet on minimum wage without rigging in this sort of one-time "expense"

I want to tell Morgan that you can make your point and tell the truth both at the same time. lease don't be the liberal Fox.

Standard economics dictates that supply and demand meet at a given price point. However, demand is being artificially inflated by the increase of oil beiing put into storage. his article touches on the speculatve aspect of this. However, it is more than simple price speculation, it is a hedge against a supply disruption. This is the so called "Terror Premium" built into the price of oil.

Currently, the world's spare oil production capacity is 1.5 million barrels per day, and meanwhile Iran's export is 2.7 million barrey per day. Therefore, an Iranian embargo would short the worlld by 1.2 million barrels per day. Saudi Arabia is building 27 new rigs right now, with the expectation that 2 million NEW barrels per day of production wiill result, resulting is a 3.5 million barrel space capacity. Once this happens, the terror premium evaporates.

Deutsche Bank is predicting that prices will receed back to the $40-50 per barrel range. This is still not cheap, so keep your Prius, but I wouldn't recommend dumping your nest egg into oil stocks right now.

The punchline seems funny because of the incorrect perception that Libertarians are the same as anarchists. This is not true. As Mr. Leonard says "In an ideal libertarian world, government would be around to provide for the common defense and enforce property rights, and that would be it." If enforcing property rights requires a labor intensive patrol and a cross-border agreement, then government would still be limiting itself to one of it's two necessary components. Nowhere in this is there any implicit need for a world government, or any expansion of the government beyond Libertarian ideals.