Ghost hunting and wild goose chasing

What a way to spend your Labor Day, trekking through a mountain range in Nevada on a wild ghost chase. A search team of 28 have resumed the search for adventurer Steve Fossett, who went all Amelia Earhart during a solo flight last Labor Day. Honestly, were all the UFO and Bigfoot hunts booked solid? The renewed search effort is based on information from another pilot who was in the area the same day as Fossett. Call me a perpetual cynic, but wouldn't this information have been a little more helpful, oh, say, a year ago, when Fossett left the radar for good? Next year, just have a damn cookout, have a little BBQ...

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How surprised I was when I learned that some banks are no longer lending money to students in community colleges. Interesting, isn't it? Half the banks in this country are teetering on the brink of disaster, thanks in no small part to their blind ramble through the housing market fiasco, and it is higher education that is suffering. By my way of thinking, and bank that will not write loans to students in community colleges should be barred from offering student loans at all, of any kind. You don't want risk, get out of the lending business, cause there is a very negligible risk in funding higher education as opposed to sticking someone with a house they probably would have understood they could not afford on down the road...if they were better educated, that is...