We’re in trouble now

Published 3:04 pm Monday, December 1, 2014

I, for one, welcome our new Girl Scout overlords: Provided they get the OK from their scout councils, Girl Scout troops will be allowed to sell their shortbread Trefoils, Samoas and Thin Mints online or even using smartphone apps, with the cookies delivered to your door.

And once the Girl Scouts begin sprinkling what ever addictive substance is in their cookies over all merchandise, they’ll quickly surpass Amazon in sales.

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Permission to treat her as a hostile witness? A class-action lawsuit over Apple’s iPod mp3 players begins today in a California court. One of the key witnesses is the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who will be heard in a taped deposition.

Because Jobs can’t be questioned in the courtroom, lawyers for the plaintiffs will cross-examine Siri.

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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1954, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution condemning Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy from Wisconsin, saying he brought “the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.”

Had he waited until today, he could have turned that censure into a book deal and his own cable news show.

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