Kindergarten Costs
Tuition for kindergarten this year at Manhattan's Dalton School is $36,000. Administrators say it costs at least that much to teach kids with parents dumb enough to spend $36,000 for kindergarten.



More Fundraisers
President Obama is holding yet another pair of fundraisers in New York City tonight at $35,800 per ticket. For that kind of money, the donor could get a decent seat at the Yankee game AND a soda!



More Fundraisers II
President Obama is holding yet another pair of fundraisers in New York City tonight at $35,800 per ticket. Most of the donors are Wall Street executives who are hoping the President uses the money to extend his vacation in Martha's Vineyard .



Greece Mess
Greek unemployment has hit a new high of 16.6%. Of course, the other 83.4% are officially employed as panhandlers.



Riot Reaction
Police in London have vowed to round up rioters and even raiding houses to find looters... so if you have more than 16 flat screen TV's in your living room, you might want to get a lawyer.











August 11th





1858: The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren. Unfortunately, they didn’t bring enough food for the trip back, so they had to eat Bohren.





1898: In the Spanish-American War, American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico… mostly to look for a good utility infielder.





1975: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union… and because the whole town had run out of toilet paper.