Ready, Set, Go

Twin brothers, both gay porn actors, and both suspected burglars.  If nothing else, they are prepared for prison life.

Check Her ‘Dex

Byron York, in NR:

But there are still problems. As she has many times in the past, Mrs. Obama complains about the lasting burden of student loans dating from her days at Princeton and Harvard Law School. She talks about people who end up taking years and years, until middle age, to pay off their debts. “The salaries don’t keep up with the cost of paying off the debt, so you’re in your 40s, still paying off your debt at a time when you have to save for your kids,” she says.

“Barack and I were in that position,” she continues. “The only reason we’re not in that position is that Barack wrote two best-selling books… It was like Jack and his magic beans. But up until a few years ago, we were struggling to figure out how we would save for our kids.” A former attorney with the white-shoe Chicago firm of Sidley & Austin, Obama explains that she and her husband made the choice to give up lucrative jobs in favor of community service. “We left corporate America, which is a lot of what we’re asking young people to do,” she tells the women. “Don’t go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we’re encouraging our young people to do that. But if you make that choice, as we did, to move out of the money-making industry into the helping industry, then your salaries respond.” Faced with that reality, she adds, “many of our bright stars are going into corporate law or hedge-fund management.”

What she doesn’t mention is that the helping industry has treated her pretty well. In 2006, the Chicago Tribune reported that Mrs. Obama’s compensation at the University of Chicago Hospital, where she is a vice president for community affairs, jumped from $121,910 in 2004, just before her husband was elected to the Senate, to $316,962 in 2005, just after he took office. And that does not count the money Mrs. Obama receives from serving on corporate boards. She would have been O.K. even without Jack’s magic beans.

Another advantage that Mrs. Obama has over the average Zanesvillian is that she and Barack had “Rezko” in their phone’s address book.  Not a bad guy to call in a time of need.

Chief Illiniwek’s Victory

Almost four-in-five students at the University of Illinois want to bring him back.

I Agree. John McCain Is a Rather Conservative Liberal.

Fun With Headlines

Columbia Tribune:  Jetton: I’m an Onder kind of guy

It should be ornery.

Reuters:   Spanking children can lead to problems later in life

Not spanking children can lead to bigger problems later in life.

Bloomberg:   Gay Clinton Backers Defect to Obama, Eroding Her Base

Queer eyes for the straight guy.

AP:   Enrique Iglesias to quit before age 50

Who?

AFP:   Harry ‘doesn’t like England,’ lashes British media

Good going, England.  Your third-in-line to the throne doesn’t even like his own country.