Ironic Times

 NO. 123 "Expect the Ironic" JANUARY 20 - 26, 2003 

Jan 13
Jan 27
UN WEAPONS INSPECTORS DISCOVER GIANT LAVA LAMP
White House calls finding "troubling."
WORLD NEWS
Troops Seize Coca-Cola Bottling
Plant in Venezuela

Cite critical shortage of Cuba Libres.
 
U. S. NEWS
Bush Celebrates Dr. King's Birthday
Joins Supreme Court suit challenging affirmative action.
Report: Heated Policy Debate
Inside White House

One faction wants to roll back everything to 1950, the other to 1850.
Bush: Area 51 to Stay Secret
White House needs "unvarnished advice"
from extraterrestrials on energy, war.
"World's Funniest Joke" Reaches White House
Provides much-needed relief from grim talk of war.

The current case challenging the University of Michigan policy favoring students on the basis of race went before the Supreme Court last Thursday. It intends to correct a terrible injustice. Imagine if schools admitted students solely because their parents donated millions of dollars to that school, or because their father had gone there, and not because their grades were good enough. We would never hear the end of it. Fortunately, just like in politics, nepotism has no place in higher education. Same thing for diversity.
 
Administration: Too Much Wasted on Child Care in Welfare-to-Work Programs
Kids could be earning money making sneakers.
 
POLITICS
Lieberman Enters Race as a
Different Kind of Democrat

Specifically, a Republican.
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