Florida GOP Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen refused to continue a phone call with the president-elect yesterday. Was it anger? Politics? Lack of interest in talking to the Democrat who was elected fair and square?
Actually, it was a miscalculation on Ros-Lehtinen's part. Perhaps learning from her party's VP candidate's mistakes ... she just assumed it was a prank call from a Florida radio station morning show. A third try was the charm. We kind of like this lawmaker's suspicious mind.
The Times Online has a video and story about Obama's grandfather, who was apparently tortured by the British during the Mau Mau uprising, Kenya's struggle for independence. Obama's grandmother says his grandfather was a cook for a British Army officer and acted as an informant during the rebellion.
A new Harris Interactive survey shows a majority of Americans are fine with same-sex couples getting married. Some 75 percent thing gays and lesbians should be allowed some kind of legal partnerships. Only 22 percent think there should be no legal recognition of committed same-sex couples.
Your worst fear as parents confirmed: you can't afford college!
Oh boy, here we go with shaming the fatties again. The annual list of healthiest/least healthy states -- determined in large part on obesity rates -- has been released. Vermont is the healthiest (oh, aren't they always). Life in Louisiana, however, is a veritable early death sentence.
A watchdog group has found that fewer toys tested positive for lead this year. That's the good news. The bad news is they found a third contained worrisome levels of toxic chemicals. Not to worry, since nobody's buying anything this year anyway.
Finally, every child of divorce worries he or she somehow contributed to the demise of the parents' marriage. Britney's ex, Kevin Federline, confirms as much. He tells people magazine that Britney filed for divorce after he was paying too much attention the kids.
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