A brief lunchtime rant....How does the U.S. look to the rest of the world? Forget about politics for a moment, and consider these ridiculous news tidbits from my home states: New York, where the
$1,000 bagel and the
$25,000 hot chocolate, with edible gold, were both unveiled this week, and from Illinois, where a junior high school student was
just given two days of after-school detention for hugging two class chums. (Texas holds
the record for absurdity, however. A school near Waco reportedly suspended a four-year-old pre-K student for hugging a teacher's aide.)
O, tempora o mores.
AMS