Good News!

 ... for parents with kids who are approaching college age. The annual tuition and fees for Oxford University in England are about $14,000 ... whereas the tuition and fees for Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA are over $55,000 ...  4 times as much! Even factoring in extra transportation costs, this is a no-brainer for parents of children who can tie their shoes.

Good News!

The news today is chock-a-block full of apocalyptic forecasts for the world. So when I find a story that points out some good news, I savor a few minutes of angst relief. Such it was when I saw this article from Watts Up With That ... which displays six charts that show how good some things really are becoming ... countering all the doom and gloomers who elbow their way into our daily dose of fake news.

One chart that I particularly enjoyed is offered above. It shows the down trends in American deaths from major weather events ... countering the climate-change alarmist meme that says just the opposite.

Take a little time enjoying these Watt's charts and then sleep a little better tonight.

Good News, Bad News

Vice President, Joe Biden said, in dialect no less, to a predominately black audience in Danville, Virginia yesterday that the Romney/Ryan policies are "gonna put y'all back in chains" (see: Free Beacon Story).  This is about as low as political discourse can possibly go ... and this is the good news.  The bad news is that Biden is digging himself such a deep hole with all his dubs and  flubs that Obama may be forced to find himself another running mate before the debates start this fall.  This would be a crying shame since Biden's mental decline is such a detriment to Obama's re-election chances that his removal could do nothing but help The Barry get four more years out of the Saul Alinsky playbook.

Addemdum:  To see more of Biden's recent gaffs ... many of which have gone unreported ... see: White House Dossier.  I think that it is increasingly likely that we will soon see Biden being dropped from the Democrat Presidential ticket (10:07 AM EST, 8/16/12).