Etc.

You just have to ask yourself where are the lawsuits against wholesale public school privatization?

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Obituary: Country singer Mindy McCready, only 37, of an apparent suicide. The cause was a gunshot wound, and she killed herself a month after her boyfriend died in the same manner:

In an interview with "Dateline" in late January, McCready denied any involvement in her live-in boyfriend's death after Canning asked her whether she had shot him.

"Oh my God, no. Oh my God, no," she responded. "He was my life. We were each other's life. There's no way to tell where one of us began and the other ended. We slept together every night holding hands."

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It's going to take riots in the streets, I fear, before this country can be preserved from the neoliberal onslaught:

Public opposition to the school closures is immense. A series of public hearings is being held on the closures, where parents, teachers and students are encouraged to plead for the retention of their school, pitting them against the parents, students and teachers from other schools. Hundreds of people have attended each meeting, some of which have been extremely tense. At least one hearing on the north side attracted more than 1,000.

Rita McNeal, a teacher of 25 years from the Austin-Lawndale area, told the WSWS, “When they close one school, it’s a really bad thing. But what they’re doing is like a systematic genocide of poor neighborhoods.”

Chicago Public Schools is the third-largest school district in the US, serving more than 400,000 children. Over 18 percent of all public school students in Illinois attend Chicago public schools, and 87 percent of students enrolled at CPS come from poor families.

Parents, students and teachers expressed outrage at the loss of the schools that anchor their community, and at the contempt shown by city officials for the needs of the city’s population, especially the most vulnerable. Many expressed disgust that people were being forced to beg for something as basic as a public school.

What Rahm and the Broadies/Waltons are doing is committing educational genocide against the poor.

Teachers also need to boot Randi Weingarten from the AFT and put Karen Lewis in her place.
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Jimnasium: Former Nevada first lady Dawn Gibbons, 58, is getting married again--to another guy named Jim:

Gibbons, 58, made headlines when she and former Gov. Jim Gibbons went through a messy divorce after 24 years of marriage. He called her crazy. She accused him of having affairs, which he denied. Their divorce was the first of a sitting governor in the state’s history.

“I prove you can be happy again,” said Gibbons, who lives in Las Vegas and is the director of community relations for Intermountain West Communications, owner of 12 NBC and a FOX affiliate.

She hosts the “Dawn & Jim Show,” with Jim Rogers, owner of Intermountain West Communications.

She is engaged to Jim Hooban, president of Independent Nevada Doctors Insurance Exchange.

She's done worse.