Higher Education Update: University of Kentucky offers college credit for eating tacos...

Well, this is embarrassing... 

Via Eater:

It counts towards a degree — really.
Students at the University of Kentucky now have the distinct privilege of being able to get college credit for eating tacos. According to Munchies, the university is offering an undergraduate class called “Taco Literacy: Public Advocacy and Mexican Food in the US South,” and the professor behind it wants to use tacos as an avenue for students to learn more about how people can forge social connections through food.
“This class allows our students to explore the issues of immigration, inequality, workers, intercultural communication, and literacy through the prism of food,” Steven Alvarez, an assistant professor from the school’s writing, rhetoric, and digital studies department told Munchies.
Through coursework that involves writing restaurant reviews, sampling tacos, and collecting data, students are meant to explore their community and develop skills to analyze “transnational community food literacies and how these connect the stories of people and food across borders,” Alvarez said.
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Public union employees rally for higher taxes

Notice the 'AstroTurf' professionally printed signs.

In Illinois, labor unions and social service advocates held a rally at the Capitol today demanding higher taxes. They chanted,

"Raise my taxes! Raise my taxes! Raise my taxes!"

Illinois legislators should help them out by passing a tax on labor unions.

The Chicago Tribune reported:

Thousands of protesters bused down by labor unions and social service advocates rallied at the Capitol today in an attempt to pressure state lawmakers into raising the income tax to avoid more budget cuts.

A spokesman for Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White estimated the rally crowd at 15,000...

"Raise my taxes! Raise my taxes! Raise my taxes!" they chanted, lined up shoulder to shoulder for a few hundred yards stretching a street in front of the Capitol.

Protesting is exhausting work for public employees.

Unemployment numbers are worse than Obama doomsday scenario if stimulus had not passed

Unemployment numbers are now worse than the doomsday scenario Obama predicted if the stimulus was not passed. The unemployment rate climbed from 8.5 percent to 8.9 percent in April. President Obama promised to create or save 3.5 million jobs with his bloated stimulus spending plan. Republicans warned the stimulus spending would not take place quickly enough to make a difference.


The blue lines are Obama’s projected unemployment numbers with and without his $775 billion stimulus. The red triangles are actual employment numbers.

Hat tip to Les Jones

White House recalculates deficit and...they were too low

According to Breitbart.com:

US President Barack Obama's administration has finalized a nearly 3.6 trillion dollar budget for 2010, including a higher than anticipated 90 billion dollar deficit increase, according to an updated plan released Monday.

Hat tip to Hot Air Pundit for reminding us of this:

Flashback: Obama slams John McCain on Bush's deficits and "orgy" of spending.