SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 8:53 P.M. ET:

AS COLLEGE COSTS SOAR – Investor's Business Daily reports that, for the first time in history, the number of unemployed people over 25 who have some college exceeds the number who did not attend college.  There were nine million Americans listed as unemployed in April.  Some 4.7 million had attended college, whereas 4.3 million had not.  This occurs at a time when college is more expensive than ever.  Maybe it's time we asked why.

BULLETIN:  CANADA IS STARVING – Many Canadians are seething at a UN "report" saying Canada, among the richest and healthiest countries in the world, actually is awash in inequality, poverty, and obesity.  Canadian officials blasted the report as having ratified the belief that the UN as a laughing stock.  They also attacked the vast waste of money on this "research," at a time when millions are starving around the world.

VOTE COUNT – Some voting is underway in Egypt's presidential election, where we're confronted by a group of bad choices.  So far votes have come from Egyptians living abroad, 587,000 of whom registered to participate.  Leading right now is the Islamist candidate, followed by a leftist candidate.  Isn't that exciting?  I wonder which one Obama is rooting for.  Neither of the leading candidates is pro-American, as was Hosni Mubarak, whom we helped usher out of power.  There are also serious concerns that democracy in Egypt may turn into "one man, one vote, one time."

May 20, 2012