Every silver lining has a touch of gray. It’s a glass-half-full kind of day for The Buzz, so here’s today’s bad news with a good-news chaser:
The bad news: Schools are banning iPods from classrooms because kids are using them to cheat during tests (http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/07/04/28/100wir_a2cheaters001.cfm).
The good news: Look for sweet deals on eBay from teachers selling the confiscated players.
The bad news: Members of the University of Washington’s Class of 1957 were surprised when they opened a time capsule from ’57 and found some porn from the 1980s (http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/07/04/28/100wir_b6time001.cfm).
The good news: This means frat boys from 1957 perfected time travel and used it to score the December 1985 issue of Playboy with Barbi Benton on the cover.
The bad news: Psychics and astrologers in Philadelphia were shut down when city officials found a 30-year-old law on the books that bans soothsaying “for gain or lucre” (http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/07/04/28/100wir_a2stranger001.cfm).
The good news: The fortune-tellers should be able to predict when the law will be repealed.
The bad news: Gas prices have reached record levels in the region and state (http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/07/04/28/100loc_a1gas001.cfm).
The worse news: Hey, even The Buzz’s sunny optimism has its limits.
— Jon Bauer, Herald staff
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