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In August, China’s biggest job-search site released a survey of 200,000 Chinese college students, ranking their preferences for employment. Only three non-Chinese multinational corporations made the list of the top 50: Google, Microsoft, and Procter & Gamble, all in the top 10. That’s a steep decline from the 21 foreign firms that made the list last year.

Two years ago in Denver, the charismatic Obama caught the political wave, addressing a blissed-out crowd of 80,000 on a stage set as a Greek temple with him as the high priest of new government activism. But an anti-Democratic tide is building, and if the Republicans can win 39 House seats in November, Boehner could be speaker.

Anyone down for a game of Hangman?

Now I wonder how harmful “fourth-hand smoke” is.

Car color: white

Item at Walmart: banana

Job: sales clerk

Cereal: Honey Nut Cheerios

Chip: Lays

Fish: shrimp

Dog: Labrador

Vacation: France

Lipstick: Revlon

Sneaker: Nike Air Force 1

• Harvard is no longer number one.  It got beaten by seven other schools.
• United States Millitary Academy costs nothing and ranks fourth.  The Air Force Academy ranks eleventh.
• Both Massachusetts and California have five colleges that made it to the top 25.
• Stanford University (6th), Claremont McKenna College (9th), Pomona College (17th), and Harvey Mudd College (22nd) are all located in California.