Amazing. I'm gone for one short week, away from most news and media outlets, I come back and -- whammo, look at all I missed. I'm trying to catch up. If you'd like to read along with me, here's a few top tidbits.
- A UI professor of poly sci is on leave while investigators try to determine whether he, indeed, propositioned something along the lines of "show me your t**s and I'll give you a better grade" to four of his female students. That's after the University's still reeling from the alleged sexual assault of a woman by two football stars last year. Welcome to "Sex Scandal of the Semester." Should look great in the admissions brochures.
- The Olympics, in general, and Michael Phelps, specifically. I'm teensy weensy crushing on this boy. Eight gold medals and have you SEEN those abs??
- I think Russia's being a bully again.
- Who's the minority? We caucasians will be soon, according to a new report by the Census Bureau. Non-Hispanic whites will drop below 50 percent of the population as early as 2042, according to Bureau projections and about 10 years earlier than demographers previously had predicted.
- Morley, Iowa's fire chief's barn burned down. Not sure that's significant news, but it was on the quirky side.
- Comedian Bernie Mac died. My inlaws exclaimed, "Who's Bernie Mac?" But they'd probably ask that of nearly any entertainment person who died. So I'd say it's still pretty big news.
- Ellen and Portia tied the knot, becoming the first high-profile couple to wed since California legalized same-sex marriages. Way to go, ladies! But I wish someone would have talked Portia out of that dress choice. She looked like she was trapped in a giant cone of cotton candy.
And in the biggest bit of news for you and me both -- on the Wednesday of our vacation, I got a cell phone call in the middle of a state park in Wisconsin from someone offering me a full-time job. I took it, without even asking about salary. Desperate, much?
- A UI professor of poly sci is on leave while investigators try to determine whether he, indeed, propositioned something along the lines of "show me your t**s and I'll give you a better grade" to four of his female students. That's after the University's still reeling from the alleged sexual assault of a woman by two football stars last year. Welcome to "Sex Scandal of the Semester." Should look great in the admissions brochures.
- The Olympics, in general, and Michael Phelps, specifically. I'm teensy weensy crushing on this boy. Eight gold medals and have you SEEN those abs??
- I think Russia's being a bully again.
- Who's the minority? We caucasians will be soon, according to a new report by the Census Bureau. Non-Hispanic whites will drop below 50 percent of the population as early as 2042, according to Bureau projections and about 10 years earlier than demographers previously had predicted.
- Morley, Iowa's fire chief's barn burned down. Not sure that's significant news, but it was on the quirky side.
- Comedian Bernie Mac died. My inlaws exclaimed, "Who's Bernie Mac?" But they'd probably ask that of nearly any entertainment person who died. So I'd say it's still pretty big news.
- Ellen and Portia tied the knot, becoming the first high-profile couple to wed since California legalized same-sex marriages. Way to go, ladies! But I wish someone would have talked Portia out of that dress choice. She looked like she was trapped in a giant cone of cotton candy.
And in the biggest bit of news for you and me both -- on the Wednesday of our vacation, I got a cell phone call in the middle of a state park in Wisconsin from someone offering me a full-time job. I took it, without even asking about salary. Desperate, much?
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