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• Flight on 9/11 anniversary ends in handcuffs for housewife

  Tue Sep 13, 2011
  • Ah, but I have figured it (you) out. Despite the fact that you could look it up yourself and know Martin Niemöller is credited with saying something close, you choose instead to deflect by attacking my choice of Wikipedia.

• Flight on 9/11 anniversary ends in handcuffs for housewife

  Tue Sep 13, 2011
  • First they came for the communists,and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists,and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews,and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

• Is it acceptable for an adult to be nude in front of a child?

  Fri Oct 16, 2009
  • If it's not your child I think it is an issue, and at this sensitive age (6) I think it's an issue.

• Environmentalists unfurl Mt. Rushmore banner

  Wed Jul 8, 2009
  • Not that this is much of a story, but the story started with "Sioux Falls, South Dakota"...just wanted to remind folks Sioux Falls is in far Eastern South Dakota--on the other side of the state.

• Would you consider a three-year college degree for you or your kids?

  Sat May 23, 2009
  • I did it by going to summer school. Luckily, my college had a great summer schedule. I think it's an awesome idea.

• In Fargo, goodwill runs as deep as Red River

  Mon Mar 30, 2009
  • While listening to the radio today, the distinct accents made me nostalgic for the lovely people of North Dakota. They are a hardy lot with amazing resilience.

• Generation Y: The young and the jobless

  Sun Mar 15, 2009
  • Previous posters are correct, workers do not pay unemployment insurance, employers do (however, I wouldn't be surprised if some employers find an underhanded way to take it from employees, but of course that's illegal.)

• AIG paying millions in bonuses despite bailout

  Sat Mar 14, 2009
  • I worked at a subsidiary of a Fortune 500 company that is very closely associated with AIG. Our bonuses were always tied to the financial performance of the company. In great years, we got huge bonuses--in bad years we got zip.

• The benefactor of the ball

  Thu Dec 4, 2008
  • My first thought was also "Aren't there better ways to help the disadvantaged?"  But after reading that Marriott was selling the package and this guy just bought it, I thought, why not?  He had the money and he can spend it as he chooses.  Even Repubs (of which I am one …

• Would John McCain have fared better with a different running mate?

  Tue Nov 4, 2008
  • No, he was already doomed.