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Bad Times Keep Us Put: Migration to South and West Slows
The intuitive trend in America to move to where the land is open and the climate warm has hit a road bump. Thanks to the housing crisis, which makes the idea of taking on a new mortgage scary and risky, people are staying put.
The population slowdown specifically hit the western and southern states, which had seen huge growth and migration over the last decade.
Spending Gone Wild: Proposal to Euthanize the West's Horses
America's wild horses may be the latest casualties of federal budget problems. Thirty-three thousand wild horses roam the West, well above the 27,000 target. Expensive holding facilities house another 30,000 rounded-up horses, making them available for adoption.
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Do Tell: Who's Your Favorite Pop Culture Witch?
The witches of popular culture come in all different varieties. There are the truly scary witches, like the queen in Snow White and the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, the harmless witches, like Samantha from Bewitched and Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and the mischievous witches, like Endora from Bewitched. To get in the spooky spirit just in time for Halloween, tell me which famous witch has you under a spell!
Say What? RNC Has a Kanye Moment
"Michael Steele had a Kanye West moment coming out there and saying Beyonce should have gotten the award. He shouldn't have done that."
— Conservative pundit Pat Buchanan said yesterday that RNC chair Michael Steele had a Kanye West moment when he came out early against President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize.
Happy West Virginia Primary Day!
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John Denver might as well have written his "Ode to West Virginia" song for Hillary Clinton, who expects to be West Virginia's victorious mountain mama today.
Watch this video montage and take a trip down memory lane country road with Hillary Clinton and John Denver. And while you're at it, test your knowledge of West Virginia with this quiz!
America: A Country For Rude People
High-profile incidents of rudeness have dominated the news cycle over the last week. The president of the United States can't give a speech without being heckled, Serena Williams lost her cool during the US Open, and yes, Kanye West acted like a "jackass" by interrupting Taylor Swift's VMA acceptance speech.
In today's New York Times, columnists David Brooks and Gail Collins weigh in on the decline of American manners.
California Assemblywoman Proposes "Donda West Law"
Though the current campaign-frenzy pushes other political happenings off the media map sometimes, lawmakers everywhere are still up, kicking, and proposing legislation. One of the latest bills just proposed in California is being called "The Donda West Law" and was inspired by the November death of Kanye West's mother after a cosmetic surgery procedure.
Proposed by California Assemblywoman Wilmer Amina Carter, the law would require patients to have medical clearance before undergoing elective cosmetic surgery.
Barack Obama Has Already Been in The West Wing
This article Buzz pointed out yesterday about Barack Obama being the real-life inspiration for Jimmy Smits' character, Matt Santos, got me all shades of nostalgic for The West Wing. Now granted, by the time that story line rolled around, I daresay the show had, ahem, Jumped the proverbial Shark, but the article is a good read and a nice blend of Ballot Bowl '08 and the Boob-tube.
Writer and producer Eli Attie said,
"Some of Santos's insistence on not being defined by his race, his pride in it even as he rises above it, came from that."
Wish the Dem Convention Was Scripted Like the West Wing?
Oh, wish no longer! With all the squabbling around the delegates and the big convention in Denver looming, don't you wish you could just cozy up and watch the drama unfold, just like the good ol' days on West Wing? This is almost as good!
Oh Snap! Big Giants at the Big Wall
More than one million people gathered in Berlin last weekend to view giant puppets at the city's historical sites. The moving exhibit, put on by artists and technicians from the French troupe Royal de Luxe, celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The "big giant" was from West Berlin, while the "little giant" was imagined to be his niece from East Berlin.
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