If you think you like Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president better than his Democratic alternative, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), now’s the time for you to prove it.
Well, Wednesday actually. As the Press-Telegram’s Paul Eakins tells us this morning, the Vault 350 will host the “Barack the Vote Concert & Fundraiser” that night, featuring ex-Booker [...]

You may have read, in Saturday’s Los Angeles Times–or Sunday’s Press-Telegram, via an Associated Press story–how the current owners of the famous Downey house where ’70s soft-rock duo Richard and Karen Carpenter lived want to tear it down?
Well, uh, they do.

Maybe that’s overstating it, but this is still a really, really, really bad time to be building houses–unless you plan to live in them all. Which is not really how being a developer works.
According to an Associated Press story in today’s Press-Telegram, sales of new homes plunged 26.4 percent last year–2007–by the largest amount on [...]

Sick, Sicker, Sicko
Paul Krugman, the Princeton economist who writes for the New York Times, began his most recent column by noting, “The United States spends far more on health care per person than any other nation. Yet we have lower life expectancy than most other rich countries.” Today, the Associated Press has a story [...]

From the “My Little Frat Boy” collection?
China has been getting a lot of attention recently for exporting lead-laden toys to the United States, but China is more than a one-trick pony. The Associated Press reports today that Australia has discovered a popular Chinese made toy which contains “a chemical that converts into a powerful “date [...]

Dead women, too
The end of Daylight Savings Time means gaining an hour, but for some people, it will mean losing something much more important. Because if the past is any guide, in the next few weeks more rush hour pedestrians than usual will find that their time is up.

So, apparently those pirates who hijacked a Japanese ship full of benzene off the coast of Somalia over the weekend are still steaming away for parts unknown–possibly the Island of Lost Meals–with a U.S. destroyer in some sort of pursuit.
Now comes word via your friends at Associated Press and CNN.com