April 8, 2008
News Bits: Go Back To Sleep
- General Petraeus in front of the Senate today; faces three very anxious senators.
- New Chinese plan: re-educate Tibetans about -- wait for it -- how bad the Dalai Lama is.
- French Grand Prix chairman in trouble for taped S&M orgy with Nazi overtones. Sorry, Spitzer, you're going to have to kick it up a notch.
- Mayor Bloomberg's totally radical traffic plan is dead in the water.
- The nightmare is about to begin: EU approved use of cell phones in-flight yesterday.
- Lack of sleep leads to obesity, even for little babies.
- Jay-Z and Beyonce have finally gone from being the most musically talented couple in the world, to the most musically talented *married* couple in the world.
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Congestion pricing is radical? Really? Wow! Really?!
Yes, King Kirby, it does seem odd that the idea of allocating a scarce commodity based on price would be a radical idea in a market based society, but the oil/automobile industries have so warped government policy that people see no hypocricy in declaring that roads should be free, while decrying every other government provided benefit as socialism.