Visit to "Some Assembly Required"

It is time to visit "Some Assembly Required" again. Here are a few tidbits.

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We have chosen self-destruction... deliberately.

Consider This: Massachusetts is the most unionized state for teachers, South Carolina the most anti-union. Massachusetts has the highest student test scores, South Carolina the lowest.

Ancient History: Mankind, with its pollution of the waters and of the air has driven the world's oceans to the brink of a mass extinction of marine life unseen for 55 million years. The simple truth is we cannot change our ways in time to stop it – the oceans are already dying faster than the dire forecasts of a few years ago. Unlike the melting of the Greenland Ice Cap, which will take hundreds of years, the death of the oceans will be rapid enough to impact those alive today. Think of it as a real time disaster movie.

Huh? The US Supreme Court says that although South Carolina violated a man's right to counsel by not providing him with a lawyer, the state did not have to provide him with a lawyer. Right. Read that again, slowly.

Kiss & Tell: NATO said one of its unmanned drone helicopters disappeared over Libya on Tuesday. Unmanned drone helicopters?

Street View: The protesters in Athens' Syntagma Square are the disenfranchised – those on the receiving end of forced austerity that has no goal except to transfer even more wealth out of Greece. Some fear the growing separation between the government and the population over austerity could prove 'explosive'. The rest of us know it will.

Rinsed & Repeated: Sales of existing U.S. homes decreased in May to the lowest level in six months, Purchases of existing homes fell 3.8 percent to a 4.81 million annual pace last month it may take years to absorb the 1.8 million distressed properties on the market that are weighing down home values. Shop around for a spin you like: it is a sign for the worse, a sign for the better, a time to sow, a time to reap...