CNN Breaking News - A yawn in yellow

Breaking News

Fewer people than expected file for first-time unemployment benefits -- 565,000 compared with 617,000 in previous week.

Can CNN.com's "Breaking News" banners get any more unsubstantial and anticlimactic?

See the ghosts of Newport, Rhode Island by trolley

Nearly every major city now has a ghost tour - haunted houses, graveyards & the whole gambit of supernatural mayhem.

Some of the tours are described as "seasonal" so make sure you're there at the right time. You don't want to miss seeing the other side of Nashville.

And a neighborhood association shall rule them

If it weren't for our neighborhood association, we wouldn't all have the same mailbox.

We wouldn't have elderly neighbors deciding if we can install a light over the driveway basketball hoop.

And nosy ladies peeking out their windows would be considered reprehensible busy-bodies instead of Architectural Control Committee Officials enforcing bylaws regulating "length of lawn" and "association-approved shutter color."

Sometimes, that college apartment we shared with four other guys sounds pretty good.