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• Flu faux pas: Germy strangers and the etiquette of being sick

  Fri Jan 27, 2012
  • It annoys me to the extreme when co-workers call in sick for the day and then I see them at after hours business social functions. Especially when there's entertainment. They'll miss work but always find a way to show up at this stuff!

• Feds: Couple claimed welfare, lived in $1.2M home

  Tue Dec 6, 2011
  • I'd love to be the judge and sentence this couple:

• Teachers caught on tape bullying special-needs girl

  Tue Nov 15, 2011
  • Revenge of a nerd - a true story In the 70's, I went to a parochial HS in the Midwest. Well, football was the religion and the athletes were the gods. The football coach loved to address students as you "filthy bunch of degenerates", threaten to throw people in the trash, and so forth.

• Do you agree with the Southwest flight crew's decision to kick a mother and cranky 2-year-old off the flight?

  Fri Oct 30, 2009
  • I completely support Southwest's decision. At least, we have the option to move away from poorly behaved children in restaurants, stores, and other public places, or else the time we have to spend around them there is much shorter.

• Should the military ban smoking by service members?

  Tue Jul 14, 2009
  • Even though I hate smoking, the military should be allowed to smoke if it is legal for civilians. By the same token, military bases need to stop selling discounted cigarettes. The military should pay the same price for cigarettes as anyone else.

• Should the military ban smoking by service members?

  Tue Jul 14, 2009
  • If the civilian sector is allowed to smoke, so should the military. It is ironic to deprive them of their freedom when they fight for our

• Teens cutting back on prom costs

  Wed May 6, 2009
  • My son goes to a public high school where the student parking area has much nicer cars than the teachers. Today teens want limos, upscale restuarants, expensive clothes for the prom when the older generation managed to have fun without that.

• Attorney: Probation advised in MySpace suicide

  Mon May 4, 2009
  • What Drew did was definitely wrong but the parents have to share some responsibility for allowing an underaged child with emotional problems to flirt with boys on a website she had no business being on in the first place.

• Obese have right to two airline seats, one fare

  Thu Nov 20, 2008
  • I shop at Sam's Club often and see grossly obese people on scooters because they can't walk long distances and their first destination when they get inside the store is usually the snack bar. More often or not obesity is a self-inflicted condition.