In the News: No Touching!

In a move to eliminate violence in their school, Armatage Elementary School in Minneapolis has outlawed touching on the playground. Principal Joan Franks had this to say:

"Since we cannot have different rules for different children, I have shared with many of the classrooms today that touching in any form is no longer acceptable while in school."

The rule comes in response to a few parents worried about the violent touching going on during reccess. Apparently Minneapolis kids really get into games of tag and touch football. Let's stop and take a moment to think about what our own childhood recesses would have been like with out don't touch the ground tag; I can only guess that the line for the swings will be doubling and with school buget cuts, I don't think they can afford to put in another tire swing. But then again, who would push? And forget kissing little Susie Jenkins underneath slide after school. Desparate times call for desparate measures. As the unnamed prison guard keeping watch over PopPop would say,

"No Touching!"

In national news, Mr. President has announced he will give up golf to show his support for the troops. Being a fan of Political cartoons, I though this one by Mr. Steve Sack said it best:

And finally, It has been announced that Jimmy Falloin will be taking over for Connan O'Brien on the NBC's Late Night show when Connan is moved up to the 10:30 slot in 2009. The pretty boy may be more popular with the ladies, but that is not what this site is about now is it. Can anyone remember a sketch in which Jimmy was able to keep a straight face; he's arguably worse than Horatio Sanz. And what has he been up to since he left the show in 2004? I'm glad he managed to make it big in the film business with such epic titles as Taxi (that was the one where he played an under cover cop with Queen Latifah, oh you didn't see that one?) and Fever Pitch (the premise being that the Red Sox could never win a world series - came out the year that Boston won the World Series). Well, we wish you luck Jimmy; and for God's sake stop throwing the pencils.