The Wednesday Eudemon

Medal score: USA 56, China 62. Phelps 15, Great Britain 13.
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I guess Thomas Sowell has become a popular columnist this year, given the phenomenon of Obama Mania. In fact, bogus Sowell material is circulating the Internet. Snopes snoops it out.
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I'll take a Whopper, hold the tomato and that dude's body hair: Burger King employee takes bath in restaurant sink. He was fired.
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I guess I'll be doing a lot more Motions for Relief from the Automatic Stay in my bankruptcy practice: Almost one-third of U.S. homeowners who bought in the last five years now owe more on their mortgages than their properties are worth.
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A woman is selling a flat along with its contents - that include her stubborn step-father who refuses to move out. This really isn't even newsworthy. It occasionally happens: Someone buys (or, in this case, inherits) property that has an existing tenant. Who has to deal with the existing tenant? Usually, the buyer insists that the seller deal with it before closing, but I've done deals where the parties agree that the buyer will deal with it. Again, it's rare but not unheard of.
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Some things simply can't wait: A Flandreau man faces charges of indecent exposure after Sioux Falls police found him [enjoying himself immensely] outside a strip club early Sunday. . . "Evidently, someone got really excited after watching their show," Kooistra said. "There were people standing around watching him and laughing. Give the guy a break. All the bathroom stalls were probably taken.
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Executed Today is a daily chronicle - each day tells the story of an historical execution that took place on this date. Pretty good stuff. For my lighter-footed readers, yesterday's entry might interest: 1833: Captain Henry Nicholas Nicholls, Sodomite.