this week's top 3

1. E xxon-Mobil: $36 billion in profits, tops of any corporation, any time, any place. [and what is all this talk about the oil barons being in the middle east?]
   
2. Congress is set to massively cut funds to student loans, by $12.7 BILLION, shifting more of the burden on families and students. [like the average american needs more debt.]
   
3. The South African port authority has detained a Sea Shepherd society boat in Cape Town that was trailing Japanese whaling vessels along with a Greenpeace ship to try to get in the way of the whale harpoons.