When the few days of government subsidies ran out, Ms. Reyes was taxied to and dumped into skid row. There she wandered the pavements in a hospital gown and a pair of socks. It took the city eight months to level the charges against Kaiser. The merciless act was caught on videotape.

They shrug, maybe it kills, so what—“Check your medicine cabinet. Millions of bottles of the widely used pain reliever acetaminophen—some sold as long as three years ago—are being recalled because they may contain metal fragments.”—Los Angeles Times.

The old shell game—The Arizona Republic commented on the recent Congressional gains by the Democratic Party. “Big businesses can work with Dems too,” declared the paper. To put it accurately: the headline would have stated: “Dems can—and will—work with big business.”

Wal-Mart’s Xmas special—Waste: “Spoiled items from the produce deli, meat and dairy departments are sent out for composting. The compost is then sold at Wal-Mart’s stores”—Los Angeles Times column.

Swindle, big time—The scandalous prices of college textbooks leaves students enraged. As far as we know, college presidents aren’t challenging the book swindle. Simply, they don’t want to rock the boat. An annual survey found the yearly take for college presidents is half a million dollars or more.  
 
 
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