A Perfect Online Business Idea

Need an online business you can start at night while you hang on to your “day job”? Check out www.Ning.com. This company developed a social networking site that you can use for little or no cost.

The basic system is free and includes all the functionality you’ll need to run your network. If you want to run your own advertising on the site and get your own URL (which you’ll need to do), then you’ll pay a small monthly fee.

Even with the fee, though, you should be able to make a profit with the site within a month or so. You just have to use your evenings to build traffic and get people to join your network.

Get more information on Ning at their website: www.ning.com.

Irrationality Causes The Right To Miss The Point

Conservative blogger JournalJim has a point on his blog (http://www.journaljim.com/?p=4). We don’t really know what caused the Tomato Salmonella outbreak last month. And that’s the problem.

Jim correctly points out that depending on one’s issue du jour, the outbreak may have been caused by global warming, or George Bush’s castration efforts at the FDA. Maybe it’s one, the other or both!

Who cares? We need to get to the bottom of this and fast. People are dying, and what’s the response from the right?

They make jokes.

This irrational defense of this failed administration disregards any facts about the consequences of allowing our government to ignore these very real threats to our survival. We need the FDA to be properly funded AND MANAGED.

You Really CAN Make This Stuff Up

They say the news is so weird, so absurd, that you just can’t make it up. But every day, the intrepid reporters at The Onion (www.theonion.com) do just that. As anyone who has seen the inside of a Newsroom can tell you, most news stories are best enjoyed with a grain of salt.

Maybe it should come with onions.

This left-wing commentary on everything from the media to sports to the Presidential election is funny, and sometimes a little uncomfortable when it hits a little too close to home.

Be sure to check out their special section on the 2008 Presidential Election: http://www.theonion.com/content/whitehousewar