In the news, August 14th, 2008

Today's Majority will be 2050's Minority.... A new report says that by the year 2050, minorities will be the majority in America, and the number of residents older than 65 will more than double. This is according to projections released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Minorities, classified as those of any race other than non-Hispanic, single-race whites, currently constitute about a third of the U.S. population, according to Census figures. But by 2042, they are projected to become the majority, making up more than half the population. By 2050, 54 percent of the population will be minorities.

Minority children are projected to reach that milestone even sooner. By 2023, the bureau said, more than half of all children will be minorities.

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The worst writing award goes to:

Garrison Spik, a 41-year-old communications director and writer, took top honors in San Jose State University's 26th annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest with this opening sentence to a nonexistent novel:

"Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole covers stamped 'Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J.'"

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He locked up his family, in a trailer, for 3 years

Police say Raymond Daniel Thurmond kept his wife and children locked inside a trailer for three years. He was arrested after police got a call from a woman at a local shelter

When police got to the mobile home where the family was said to be kept, the conditions were so bad that one officer immediately ran behind an adjacent trailer to vomit,and another officer had to put on a gas mask.

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The Spying Chef

According to a report has been released, Julia Child was part of an international spy ring during World War II. She shared a secret with Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and Chicago White Sox catcher Moe Berg at a time when the Nazis threatened the world. They served in an international spy ring managed by the Office of Strategic Services, an early version of the CIA created in World War II by President Franklin Roosevelt.

According to previously classified files, there were nearly 24,000 spies who formed the first centralized intelligence effort by the United States. The National Archives released a list of the names found in the records, will make available for the first time all 750,000 pages identifying the vast spy network of military and civilian operatives.

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Getting Back at an Adulterous Husband eBay Style


This is an eBay listing advertising the sale of a pair of underwear and a condom wrapper up for auction by an Australian woman has taken revenge on her cheating husband.

The eBay listing by seller annastella007, is entitled "Empty condom packet & a photo of 'The Tart's' knickers," also includes a detailed account of the events leading up to the discovery.

According to the listing the woman, says she is selling a picture of a pair of lacy black knickers and an empty condom wrapper "size small" found in her bed after her husband had an affair with another woman.
The unflattering description of the knickers;

"They are so huge I thought they may make someone a nice shawl or, even better, something for Halloween perhaps."

The woman says she returned from work after receiving a romantic text message from her husband of 22 years that was clearly misdirected to find him at home watching a DVD and discouraging her from entering their bedroom.

In the room she found the empty condom wrapper under his pillow and "the Tart's knickers ... at the foot of the bed." She says her husband's Harley motorcycle is "the next item that will probably be sold on eBay at a start price of 99c and, of course, with no reserve!"