- Store theft will cost the average family of four an extra $423 this year as retailers pass the price of extra security and lost goods to consumers.
- The Justice Department is going after Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan for allegedly forcing hospitals to give its competitors higher rates.
- A number of political polls may be excluding cell phone only households, which may skew results towards the GOP.
- France enters its fourth national strike period as 20% of the nation's fuel stations are out of gas due to trucking and refinery closures.
- Scientists have tested tweets against the stock market and found the more calm the users, the better the Dow does.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
I've been saying that about cell phone-only voters for months. My 20-something friends don't have landlines, don't get polled, and are Democrats. (They think Republicans and their divisiveness, esp. antigay and racial nastiness, are as anachronistic as telephones that they can't take with them wherever they go.)
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