American Idol

Possibly the best AI try-out ever. Slayed me. A friend of mine thought the guy was serious. If that's the case, it's too creepy to be funny, but if the guy was just joking, he did a good job:

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Slut Nation: In 2006, for the first time in the nation's history, most of the infants born in France were born out of wedlock.
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It's the Memorial of St. Antony, the hermit, kinda. Here's my capsule summary from an earlier article:

In Christianity, the monastic life started with St. Antony. In 285, St. Antony fled to the wastes of Egypt, there to live by himself in an old empty fort. He stayed there nearly 75 years, coming out only twice. People flocked to see the holy man and follow his example. He organized them into loose groups and placed them in separate and scattered cells, instructing them to come together only for common worship. A little later, a man named Pachomius organized these groups into formal monasteries.

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The Obama race problem in a nutshell: "White liberals face this cognitive dissonance: If they decide that America is ready for a black president and back Obama they would also be forced to surrender or at least modify decades of convictions about American bias."
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Some dork will want to prosecute the pizza man: A driver for Domino's Pizza fatally shot an armed robber Tuesday as he was delivering a pizza at an east Charlotte apartment complex, Charlotte Mecklenburg police said.