So Craigslist and Monster.com and the like, online, have given individuals an alternative -- and newspaper management didn't deal in time with clear signs of that competition coming, despite many warnings.

What is not being said, though, is that it is the MBA mindset coming into newspaper management, and the Madoff minset coming into ownership, that is killing them.  It is the mindset that demands that large newspapers' longtime high profit levels continue.  Those profit levels long were much higher than for other businesses.  

Even in this economy, my husband needs one more worker to add to his two guys I wrote about and one other that he has. The rich people around here aren't about to do their own landscaping! I worry about them losing their houses though. He says he can do without it if he wants to but I hope he doesn't until he replaces them.

That's right, John Heisman himself was there when UNC was playing Georgia in 1895. The Tar Heels were forced to punt, but the line didn't do a very good job of blocking, and their punter was quickly surrounded by Bulldogs defenders. In a moment of panic, he ran to his right, saw a wide open UNC player downfield and threw the ball up. George Stephens caught it and ran for the 70 yard touchdown.

[a-11 is a] complex hybrid of the spread offense, a Dunder-Mifflin fire drill and a game of capture the flag

Of course, the A-11 was already banned in West Virginia and North Carolina and a handful of other states before the committee voted to ban it nationally, all of which makes it seem as if Humphries and Bryan are somehow using this offense to artificially drive up stock prices or kidnap small children.

They discount the ingenuity Humphries and Bryan have shown in implementing an entire system based on a loophole no one had noticed before; they discount the value of sheer inventiveness. But this has always been the case, and it always will be. After all, at least 50 percent of the purpose of the game of football is to retard forward progress.

I found an unbelievably great Oriental reflexologist here. He fixed a 10 year long shoulder problem for me in one sitting, and I've been more than 3 years pain free. Reflexology is not a foot massage, it is painful and takes a very skilled practitioner to do it right.

The overuse and problem of new virus mutations has been known for decades. There was an over-the-counter cleanser called Phisohex back in the 60's that was for acne, but also used as hand cleanser in hospitals and doctor offices...it was banned and taken off the market. Now it's by prescription only and used to kill the MRSA virus.

In recent years, I've refused to use anti-bacterial soaps and put liquid Johnson's baby wash at the sinks since it was impossible to find a liquid hand soap that wasn't anti-bacterial. I've noticed lately that numerous choices are now back on the shelves. I'm hoping to see antacids drop the added calcium next.

Ya can't beat mother nature, no need to rush along a superbug.  

I for one am tired of being a guinea pig, but such is life I guess.

The stimulus creates jobs and not careers.  It isn't sustainable - government spending at these levels cannot occur year after year.  Simultaneously it will prevent price deflation.  The result being that private investment will not be willing to take government spendings place and all the jobs will disappear - then we'll deflate - then savings and investment will begin anew.