News, Etc.

Another fool or practical joker continues on the search for Sasquatch or Bigfoot, with the realization few men without connections to Hollywood go parading around the wild wearing ape suits.

The Mail Tribune is a pay site now, so if you don't have access, well, I don't know what to tell you.
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A man who was the first donor of a successful transplanted organ operation  has died.

Herrick's twin brother lived eight years following the 1954 kidney transplant.
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The tragic fire in New Orleans where eight people died trying to get warm in an abandoned warehouse is unfortunately the present and future of what was once the greatest country in the world, at least for the vast majority of people living in it:

A recent Rutgers University study demonstrates that the experiences of increasing numbers of Americans have led them to believe that the “American Dream”—one of the principal ideological justifications for US capitalism—is out of reach of the vast majority of people in this country. Fifty-seven percent of those surveyed in “The Shattered American Dream: Unemployed Workers Lose Ground, Hope, and Faith in their Futures” believe that “hard work does not guarantee success.”

The study interviewed 1,202 people who had been unemployed at some point between September 2008 and August 2009. Just one-third of those surveyed believe they will recover financially to where they were before the economic downturn; 61 percent did not expect to get back to “their prior economic station in life.” Almost half said they were in “flat-out poor financial shape.”

Among those aged 18-34, 51 percent said the economic downturn has had a major impact on their family, and 41 percent said they were in poor financial shape.