This Week in the Mercury
Friday, December 4, 2009
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Posted by Sarah Mirk on Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:22 AM
Uh... Good News! Today's headline: "U.S. Economy Lost Only 11,000 Jobs in November."
7,000 More Troops: From NATO for Afghanistan.
News Editor, Please Report to Ad Sales: Disturbing news for newspapers—the editorial department of the Dallas Morning News now reports to ad executives.
Urban Re-NO-al: Court rules that Columbia University cannot use eminent domain to expand its campus just because it claims the surrounding area is "blighted".
Stella McCartney/Morrissey Love Child: It's a vegan shoe line!
White House Party Crasher: Also faked her way into.... the Redskins cheerleading squad?!
How to Get Your Girlfriend to Punch You in the Face. A UK catalog has offers the worst gift idea EVER:
Sarah Palin: Birther. Do you care?
Soccer Fans, Conspiracy Theorists: Sometimes they're one and the same!
Happy as a Duck: We won the civil war!
Si Se Puede! Oregon Dept of Education allows non-fluent English speakers to get high school diplomas using their native languages. Cue avalanche of racist comments on the Oregonian site in 3....2....1
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