
The intuitive trend in America to move to where the land is open and the climate warm has hit a road bump. Thanks to the housing crisis, which makes the idea of taking on a new mortgage scary and risky, people are
staying put.
The population slowdown specifically hit the western and southern states, which had seen huge growth and migration over the last decade.
Fallout from Hurricane Ike and Gustav has spiraled into massive gas shortages in the Southeast. Drivers in Nashville, TN,
where the problem is the worst, wait in long lines and some follow tankers around in hopes of being the first to fill up before a station goes dry.
In western North Carolina local governments have been
forced to cancel programs, since there's not much gas to travel to activities.

ROFL, OMG, etc. So North Carolina's DMV has to get cracking to cook up 10,000
replacement license plates after one 60-year-old grandmother got clued in by her text-savvy grandchild that her standard-issue plate, contained an acronym that expresses disbelief in an explicit fashion. As in, WTF.

Citizens all over the world are not safe from Peeping Toms. Venice police just caught a man who had
photographed the backsides of over 3,000 women, as they strolled around San Marco square. The man tailed the women wearing short skirts, carrying a bag with a camera, and filming their tails through a small hole in the bag.

I wonder if anyone is as exhausted as CBS must be this morning after having called Indiana so early, and then having to wait — alone— as Hillary's lead shrunk. They must have been sweating it to say the least. But when the counting was done, Hillary
indeed took Indiana by a thin, two-point margin.

CNN
is projecting that Barack Obama has lit up the ballot boxes and scored a win in the contest for North Carolina's
134 delegate votes.
He was expected to do well, and the exact number of delegates he'll take from the contest will be determined at the end of the counting, though it seems like he won by a sizeable margin. This is his first big state win in several contests.

It's the beginning of the end of the beginning folks! With Indiana and North Carolina's polls closing in seconds, we're in the homeward stretch until June 3, when all the votes will be in and the big shake up will shake down.
Here's some fun while we wait!