- According to this analysis, China is actually broke or will be by 2030 when its citizens are old and no money has been put aside for their retirement.
- North Dakota state Rep. David Weiler has been charged with domestic assault for the second time in a year.
- Illinois money problems are so bad that state legislators are getting eviction notices for their offices because their landlords have not been paid.
- Opposition to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is coming from a new political group…the Purple People.
- Boston.com has a slew of Kim Jong-il images as he visits a steel mill, shoe store, vodka distillery, fishery operations and other places. Kim has an entourage that keeps notes on his the wisdom he imparts on how to run these ventures. Oddly, the only picture of Kim smiling is when he is holding a bottle of vodka. He is also pictured with what are probably the only pineapples in North Korea.
- Utah lawmaker Kevin Garn has resigned two days after a hot tub incident with a 15-year-old girl became public.
- The city of Vallejo, California wants to turn an ancient Ohlone Indian village and burial mound into a park. Indian leaders are upset that the parks restrooms are situated right over the burial grounds.
- New South Wales, Australia, is the first government in the world to let a person classify one’s gender as “non-specified.”
