Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Singaporese Confused?

Big News

The Federal Reserve on Tuesday left a key interest rate unchanged. The nation's CEOs were so happy they promised to stop embezzling from their companies for a whole week.

Wednesday, August 9th

Singer Whitney Houston is 43 on Wednesday. As a birthday present, Bobby Brown will stay away from her.

Wednesday is Independence Day in Singapore. The Singaporese are part Chinese, part Indian, and part Malaysian -- which makes reproduction very complicated.

Edward the 7th was crowned King of England on August 9th in 1902. Fortunately, he was 59 and already had outgrown the usual king-type pranks like beheading, conquering, and going insane.- Edward is best remembered for such accomplishments as smoking cigars, smiling at Frenchmen, and inventing appendicitis.

On August 9th in 1974 Richard Nixon became the first U.S. president to resign from office. It's just too bad more politicians can't accomplish great things like that.

Love & Learn

Facing Parenthood ... with HIV - Two-year-old Grace McKittrick knows how to play the drums with her hands and paint pictures with her fingers. What she doesn't know, not yet anyway, is that her dad is HIV positive.

Caldwell: After Castro - Anti-Castro Cubans call it the "biological solution," the inevitable moment when mortality catches up to their self-proclaimed Maximum Leader. That moment has arrived. Cuba's post-Fidel era began last week, with or without the actual death of the world's longest-ruling dictator.

Book Reviews - Hollow Earth and Coal Hollow.

To Be Equal - Voting Rights Act reauthorization drew together diversity of supporters.

Decor Score - Decorating a teen room on the cheap.

How to Get Children Out of the House Tip #1:

Buy them a croquet set. They so enjoy throwing mallets at each other.

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