Friday, January 04, 2008

Essay 4938


Rocking the vote in a MultiCultClassics Monologue…

• Barack Obama was a big winner in Iowa. But so was Mike Huckabee. Guess it’s society’s way of balancing out signs of progress.

• A New Jersey legislative committee approved a measure that will lead to the state apologizing for slavery. Another vote takes place in the Assembly on Monday. Hey, if Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee can win in Iowa, anything’s possible.

• Toyota passed Ford Motor Company to become the No. 2 automaker in the U.S. No surprise at all in that contest.

• A northern state in India has a unique proposal for its unemployed youth: sterilizing wild monkeys that have been raiding farms. “It is a ridiculous idea and what is worse, it will do nothing to contain the problem and probably make it worse,” said an ecologist, referring to the monkeys versus the unemployment. “Can you imagine what having badly sterilized monkeys running around will do to the levels of aggression?” It will also make for really bizarre entries on résumés.

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