By DALE McFEATTERS, Scripps Howard News Service
Dessert: Levi and the Palins, too good to ignore
Sarah Palin is the gift that keeps on giving, and one of those gifts is her ex-son-in-law-to-be, Levi Johnston.
Dessert: Confessions of a clunker dumper
I'd like to thank the American taxpayers for our new car. We couldn't have done it without you. Nobody else but the federal government would have given us $4,500 for an 18-year-old SUV with a cracked windshield.
Dessert: An exercise in wingnuttery
The Framers of the Constitution were relaxed -- many Republicans might say careless -- in laying out the qualifications to hold office in their new government.
Dearly departed -- but not far
You would think that between the high cost of land and the vigilance of homeowners' associations that this trend won't take off, but The New York Times is reporting that home burials are a growing alternative to a conventional funeral.
Dessert: Sarah Palin, growth industry
Amid the gloom of the recession, one growth industry stands out -- Sarah Palin.
Dessert: The compost by the Bay
Every Thursday night in my cul-de-sac we do the dance of the bins, setting out an imposing array of containers for the trash haulers to pick up the next morning.
Editorial: Don't look now, but a Gitmo detainee is here
Maybe because it is, after all, the Big Apple, but New Yorkers were remarkably unfazed by the appearance in their midst Tuesday of Ahmed Ghailani, the first Guantanamo Bay detainee brought to the United States and soon to be the first detainee to stand trial in a civilian criminal court.
Dessert: Sonia, the senators talk, you listen
From now until the gavel falls on the Senate vote on her confirmation to the Supreme Court, nominee Sonia Sotomayor must keep one thought firmly fixed in her mind: Shut up. Don't talk. If you must talk, say as little as possible and confine that to banalities and generalities.
Dessert: On count of three, look nondescript
When I was teaching high school in Africa my students were generally a happy and gregarious lot, constantly laughing and clowning around. But bring out the camera and you had all the levity and high spirits of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, that dour and desperate group of statesmen who brought World War I to a very bad end.
Brits do sex scandals better than money scandals
John Trevor, wherever his soul may be, must be feeling a little bit less lonely in the sweep of history. In 1695 he was forced out as speaker of the British House of Commons for accepting a bribe and for 314 long years he was the only speaker to be ousted. Until this past week.
