We're pretty much obsessed with things that aren't happening. The headlines the other day on one of the Internet's top portals announced that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were not expecting a child, and that Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn weren't engaged.

And at the same time, actual things are happening, and we're barely noticing.

A study published by the Lancet, Britain's leading medical journal, reported last week that over 32,000 people die monthly in the Congo. Between 1998 and 2004, nearly 4 million people died in the African nation. Four million. The number is incomprehensible. [Read article]

During his first satellite radio broadcast Monday, Howard Stern promised a new breed of radio. He declared himself free from the federal regulators who hounded him during his terrestrial radio days and vowed that his new show will be wild.

With no censors to stop his cursing, he announced that he would pursue previously banned acts, including live sex, on the show. For Michael Powell and others who had badgered Stern from the Federal Communications Commission for two decades and fined him $2.5 million, it was time to cringe. [Read article]

The case against student government president Cade Bernsen is being pressed in many courts: in the Dean of Students office, in the ASUA Senate and in public opinion.

There are many unanswered questions and allegations against Bernsen, who was recently accused of sexual harassment by two female workers, one of whom is an elected official.

Regardless of which court Bernsen is scrutinized in, he is presumed innocent until proven otherwise. [Read article]