Hello, I must be going

Now that I've spent more time than I care to consider getting just the framework of this new blog in place, I suppose I ought to make a first post to justify the effort. As I am tired and haven't had much time for thought today, I will merely assemble, from the day's on-line headlines from here and there, a list one might call "Oh really?"

• A Health Plan for Wal-Mart: Less Stinginess
• Bhutto Put Under House Arrest Again
• Airline websites are 'misleading'
• Democrats say hidden costs double war price
• Recession hinges on overcoming debt
• Somalia's War Flares Up Again
• Ship may have strayed from course before spill
• Blacks Trail in Growth of Income
• In Hollywood Hives, the Males Rule
• Challenges to Both Left and Right on Global Warming

And last but not least in this collection of Things You Would Never Have Guessed (Unless Your IQ Exceeds 37) . . . News Bytes of the Week--Ovulating Strippers Make Bigger Tips.

Remember, for each of those, someone, somewhere, under the unlikely designation "journalist", was paid money. Good night and good luck.