IT IS TIME, HIGH TIME, TO CONTINUE AND STRENGTHEN THE COURAGEOUS SILENT WITNESS AGAINST WAR AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE THAT TAKES PLACE FRIDAYS AT CITY HALL IN KINGSTON…..THIS IS AN IDEA WHOSE TIME DEMANDS ALL THINKING CITIZENS TO PARTICIPATE IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER AGAINST THE WAR MONGERS IN WASHINGTON…… SAN FRANCISCO QUIET STAND FOR PEACE [...]
OR, PERHAPS, FOIS GRAS ON TOP OF A BURGER IS AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME. THE OBESITY PEOPLE (RESEARCHERS, THAT IS) ARE CHEERING! New York City now home to $175 hamburger Daniel Trotta, Reuters Published: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Its creators admit it is the ultimate in decadence: a [...]
SORRY FOR THE LAST POST, AS I MUST HAVE BEEN EXCEPTIONALLY SHORT-SIGHTED AND NEAR-SIGHTED….HERE IS THE REAL SKINNY….. Naked pilot, flight attendant arrested in woods Tuesday, May 20, 2008 (05-20) 14:22 PDT Harrisburg, Pa. (AP) – An airline pilot was found hiding behind a shed wearing only flip-flops and a wristwatch as a nighttime romp [...]
DO YOU RECALL THOSE WONDROUS DAYS OF YESTERYEAR, SAY IN THE LATE 1950s AND 1960s WHEN FLYING WAS, WELL, TINGED WITH AT LEAST A TOUCH OF GLAMOUR…..YES, OF COURSE YOU DO, AND DO YOU RECALL DIMITRI TIOMKIN’S MARVELOUS THEME MUSIC TO THE FILM, “THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY,” FEATURING JOHN WAYNE (WHO ELSE?) AS A [...]
VERY LUCKY GUY…. Photographer speared by javelin at Utah meet Monday, May 19, 2008 (05-19) 18:00 PDT Provo, Utah (AP) – A newspaper photographer got a little too close to the action at the state high school track championships — and was speared through the leg by a javelin. Ryan McGeeney of the Standard-Examiner was [...]
ONLY AN ENGLISH PAPER COULD SEE THIS FOR WHAT IT IS….WE DISAGREE, COMPLETELY, OF COURSE…… France mulls happy-hour ban to curb youth drinking Reuters, Monday May 19 2008 PARIS, May 19 (Reuters) – France is considering a ban on happy hours in bars and on the sale of bottles of vodka and other strong liquor [...]
OR, DAVID WILSON, ARE YOU LISTENING? Cal rewards Boyle with big contract Michelle Smith, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, May 14, 2008 (05-13) 21:13 PDT — Cal women’s coach Joanne Boyle is about to get a big raise and a long-term contract extension, the culmination of a process that began when she turned down the Duke [...]