NEWS SNACKIN'

Scooby Doo Would Approve: Snack-Sized Vittles From The News

1969 WAS A FAR-OUT YEAR!

We tripped out at Woodstock, saw the first man on the moon, met the The Brady Bunch and adopted a pooch named Scooby Doo. As the hound's favored sidekick Shaggy would say, "ZOINKS JINKIES!

Mystery, Inc. opened its doors to business on Sept. 13, 1969 and has been chasing fake werewoves and witches through crime sprees ever since. As Freddy would say, Nice work, Scoob!

In honor of Scoob's hankering for snacks, we're delivering snackable news in bite-sized vittles today!

FIRST OFF, there is a not-to-be-missed piece from The New York Times on the riddle-wrapped-in-an enigma known as economics written by last year's Nobel prize winner Paul Krugman. Krugman makes haste of the idea that nothing -- not money, not fancy educations, not 200 years of free market experience -- is what it seems. And it will frighteningly reinforce the truth that no one can predict the future.

DESPITE ALL THE HAND-WRINGING, President Obama seems to have done no harm to America's school children when he told them Tuesday, "Every single one of you has something you're good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can provide." And the Republicans are complaining? Jeez.

The Associated Press delivers a tidy summary here of the Obama Administration's missteps on its way to implementing public health care. That adage about "good intentions" immediately comes to mind upon reading.

ON THE CELEB FRONT, George Clooney debuts his latest brunette, a delusional Jon Gosselin disses soon-to-be-ex Kate and says beau Hailey Glassman makes his heart pound. Yawn.

FINALLY, THE U.K.'s Telegraph reports on a Dutch study that concludes beautiful women befuddle men's thinking. One commenter on Asylum astutely blames it on "blood flow."