Presumption Junction. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee and dog-lover Mitt Romney swept the Superfluous Tuesday primaries yesterday, winning contests in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware, and one other state that escapes me at the moment. That's how much I care.
$40,000 dollars a day. That's the cost of providing Secret Service protection to Newt Gingrich as he continues his deluded, self-serving run for president. What are they protecting him from... irrelevancy? (Not working.)
Seattle Police need your help identifying the shooter of 21-year-old Nicole Westbrook.
We still make stuff! Aerospace giant Boeing reported $923 million in quarterly profits, 58 percent higher than the year-ago quarter, apparently on strong sales of... wait for it... airplanes!
We still design stuff! Apple's stock is up over 9 percent this morning after the iPhone maker announced quarterly profits of $11.6 billion, up another 94 percent from the year ago quarter. Apple's growth is partially fueled by a five-fold increase in sales in China, which analysts predict could pass the US as Apple's largest market by the end of 2013.
We still borrow stuff! Fitch Ratings yesterday upgraded Ford's credit rating from junk to BBB, the automaker's first investment grade rating since 2005.
One trillion dollars! That's the outstanding student loan debt in the US, a nation that no longer believes in collectively investing in our future. Unlike the housing bubble, lenders can't foreclose on a human being. Yet.
Fore! A gray whale found dead in the Puget Sound had various pieces of garbage in its stomach, including a golf ball. NOAA say the garbage was not the cause of death, but it sure makes for a good headline.
Life in the fast lane. Sea-Tac opened its first "expedited security check" line yesterday, allowing pre-screened/pre-invited frequent flyers to skip TSA's usual humiliation. But, you know, fuck the rest of us.
Change you can believe in. Zimbabwe adopted the US dollar in 2009 after its own currency collapsed. Now with inflation whipped and its economy recovering the African nation is facing a severe shortage of coinage, making it nearly impossible for merchants to make change.
Hey Britain, how's that austerity working out for you? Not so well, apparently, with the British economy shrinking for the second straight quarter, marking the nation's first double-dip recession since the 1970s.
Surrender Dorothy! North Korea's military chief today claimed that the half-starving/half-crazed Stalinist relic has "powerful modern weapons" capable of destroying the United States.
A moment of silence for from Rob McKenna:
