The for-profit company Waste Management (WM) has recently been embroiled in a trashy dispute with the city of Mobile, Alabama.

Washington State voters are being subjected to nonstop ads about a ballot initiative to label genetically engineered foods, Initiative 522. Ads sponsored by industries that oppose it.

Amid the backward reeling of Washington's bid to launch yet another Middle Eastern invasion, there was one unexpected collateral casualty: the fanciful résumé of Elizabeth O'Bagy.