Rotundus.com

As a starting point I offer this:

An Indiana woman with advanced throat cancer says she had to divorce her husband to afford a life-saving surgery.

... With the aid of a mechanical larynx, Sharpe said that because her husband Freddie Sharpe was collecting disability insurance, the couple's combined income disqualified her from receiving enough Medicaid money to cover the cost of her treatment.

"If we didn't get a divorce, I wouldn't be alive today," said Sharpe.

(In ABC News)

Alert the presses: Obama seen exercising with a Microsoft Zune rather than an ipod.

Sign of the end of Western civilization: Obama spokeperson officially denies this, stating that Obama uses an iPod (and thus is sufficiently "cool" to be president).

Honestly, most of the political debate these days really doesn't get any deeper than something like this.

(Now that I think about it, perhaps some good can come out of this. Perhaps it'll mean that Republicans will start purchasing other MP3 players instead of those annoying iPods).

The Times Online recently had an article out about the composition of cheap, no-name foods in Britain. Amongst the things they found were sausage rolls with just 6% pork, cheese slices that contained a mere 11% cheese, and chicken and vegetable pies containing 9% chicken and 2% vegetables.

Professor Tom Sanders, head of nutritional sciences at King’s College London, said: “This is cheap, second-rate food ingredients masquerading as real food. They are heavily processed foods using added fat, water and sugar. People tempted by the low prices should look carefully at the labels.”

Some nutcase in Britain is spending roughly $500,000CDN to build a doghouse. The Mirror has details that you've got to read.