today’s news and information gleanings from here and there!

Quote for today… “Come on, really people? Once again the media takes nothing and blows it up into something. Ebola….not life threatening here yet, Gaza….not close enough to home. A car meet, now that’s breaking news. I’ll be taking a crap soon. Come cover that live.” – Eric Trussel, commenter on the LancasterOnLine article about the car enthusiasts at the Sonic in Mount Joy.

• “Comcast offers free, reduced Internet packages for York area” – The York Dispatch

Wonder which percentile buys $600 suits that are taken to discount dry cleaners? PHOTO SOURCE: ecommcentral.com

• “How the ‘wealth gap’ is damaging the US economy” – CBS news

• Interesting transportation idea worth discussion: The Loop –  F&M Website

• The Washington Post has record month – online – The Washington Post

• 1945: US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima – BBC

• Highest ranking US officer since 1970 killed in Afghanistan– The York Dispatch

• College rankings: lots of highly ranked schools in PA – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• “Shinseki’s recent departure left behind too many of those I would not go into battle with like I would with the General, that is, a Congress with many legislators who now excoriate the VA but were the very ones who repeatedly voted against budgets that would have addressed much of the VA’s problems.” – From a column by Joe Sestak in today’s Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era.

• Really? House arrest? Continued inconsistent punishment for similar offenses – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era