Hot off the Press: No more shameless "Hooisers" references for seven months edition

A wave of politically motivated suicides is rocking India: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/world/asia/31india.html?hp.

No matter what, this NYT writer (this seems like an op-ed to me) says, everyone pays for the bad health habits of others. Is punishing those who make bad decisions (by refusing care or hiking costs for them) the answer to curbing habits like smoking?: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/health/30risk.html. What go around, come around, kid.

Many in a working class suburb of Atlanta will likely be unable to get to work as the county shuts down its bus system due to budget cuts: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-georgia-bus1-2010apr01,0,3408048.story.

The first debate among the Republican candidates for governor in Iowa will be taped instead of live, and off-limits to the public and media: http://gazetteonline.com/breaking-news/2010/04/01/first-republican-iowa-governor-debate-will-be-off-limits-to-public-media. In essence, it will be a commercial. Very shady, if you ask me. I'll be voting in Iowa this November; I wonder who the Greens will run?

A nice little Todd Dorman CRG blog post about the first anniversary of the Iowa Supreme Court's marriage equality ruling: http://gazetteonline.com/blogs/24-hour-dorman/2010/04/01/a-big-deal-and-no-big-deal.

A book about our stuff, which will all one day be trash: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2010/04/03/MNV41CP5M9.DTL.

A few UC schools have dipped into student fee money to pay for construction projects and investment mistakes, not what the money is meant for: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-student-funds4-2010apr04,0,2506603.story.

A DMR article about the hardships of Adams County, Iowa's least populated county: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100404/NEWS/4040340/.

A UI Writers' Workshop grad quit using Facebook and Twitter because the time she spent on the sites could be better spent — gasp! — WRITING! She realized neither were essential nor missed. However, this LAT blogger wonders if she did the right thing, eschewing from networking via the sites and branding herself: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/04/a-new-writer-quits-twitter-facebook.html. I hope the writer stays disconnected. Twitter and Facebook are, essentially, useless.