Headline Meme

Both the meme and the mystery:  Man Crashes into Conn. Gas Station, Steals Banana.

Good example of the meme because once you have read the headline you are pretty much finished with the story.

EXCEPT for the mystery.  If the guy was high...a banana?  If I needed munchies bad enough to crash my car into a gas station, I'd be going for the Ho-Hos, Snickers, and Doritos.  If he was just really drunk...why stick around, rather than panic?  And if he was a marathon runner, lost on his way to the start...Actually, that explains it, never mind.

Nod to the LMM.

You have to laugh...

The Repubs sat on their hands the whole time that GW Bush grossly expanded the de facto powers of the Presidency.  It was clearly unconstitutional, but they said nothing, because it was THEIR jerk running things.

Now that Obama has seen everything that Bush did, and then decided to raise, the Repubs are making some tepid noises of protest.  Nothing really big, nothing that would be effective, just whining in the background.  Which is a shame.  The Prez would back down in a heartbeat.  He's bluffing.  But he wins hand after hand, because the Repubs are worthless.  They actually LIKE a powerful, autocratic Presidency.

Facial expressions entirely appropriate for these troubled times

Iz our children learning?

No George, but our teachers are cheating and that's almost the same thing, innit?

"Award-winning gains by Atlanta students were based on widespread cheating by 178 named teachers and principals, said Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal on Tuesday. His office released a report from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation that names 178 teachers and principals – 82 of whom confessed – in what's likely the biggest cheating scandal in US history.

This appears to be the largest of dozens of major cheating scandals, unearthed across the country. The allegations point an ongoing problem for US education, which has developed an ever-increasing dependence on standardized tests.
The report on the Atlanta Public Schools, released Tuesday, indicates a "widespread" conspiracy by teachers, principals and administrators to fix answers on the Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT), punish whistle-blowers, and hide improprieties."

Sounds like a RICO case just waiting to be filed.