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"Made in China" is still not a good source for jokes.

Funnily, Congressional Republicans channel Beavis and Butthead in their efforts to voice their opposition to President Obama's economic stimulus he signed into law last February.

While some Chicago White Sox fans celebrated the home opener against the Kansas City Royals, there were other events occurring in the Chicago area and elsewhere all over the country that received much less attention: municipal elections. I voted today partly because a former classmate ran for office in my town, but mostly because my town desperately needs a change from the selfishly inept leadership that presently runs it. What bothers me is in a town of about 15,000 where approximately 70% are of voting age (11,000 potential voters) only two thousand people cast ballots in this election. This is a far cry form the nearly 7,000 ballots cast fourteen months ago in the 2008 Illinois primary contest. It is reasonable to speculate that the severe drop in voter turnout stems from election fatigue, especially if there is a hotly contested seat for federal office: president, senator, or (U.S. House) representative. I wonder whether or not this possibility factored into the decision to make mu...

Samuel J. "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher is Homer J. Simpson.

Would you go to a school that advertises on television with the disclaimer, "Credits unlikely to transfer"?

I don't consider myself a practical joker, but I do enjoy a good prank when the situation warrants. For me, April 1st provides enough cover for me to do something grand for a couple of reasons. First, people whose sensibilities would be offended at other times would take offense at the prank. Secondly, it's a holiday I don't mind getting into the spirit of since it costs virtually nothing to celebrate. In order to play a believable prank, especially on April Fool's Day, there has to be an element of plausibility in the prankster's ruse. I decided to use my recent excursion on Jeopardy! to supply the ethos for my prank. Since most everyone I know, directly and indirectly, congratulated me on my Jeopardy! experience, I needed a vehicle to produce the biggest impact possible. I decided to use the popular networking website Facebook to my advantage by making this pronouncement, "Shawn St.Clair received a call asking him to audition for "Who Wants to be a Mil...

If all of the Nigerian lawyers, bankers, and financiers looking to safely transfer funds to Americans just sent cashier's checks rather than emails to people, our economic crisis would be solved.