RETURNING FROM CALIFORNIA a few weeks ago, I’ve been remiss in failing to get back on line with the usual views and shrews. Much to relate about the Golden State, most of it baleful reflections on huge failures in state politics and economics, and the political system itself in a shambles. It will […]
ANOTHER GORGEOUS MORNING in K-Town, with mere gossamer wisps sullying blue pastel, and the promise of another run of summer days in the week before autumn begins. You gotta love it, and wonder, with Huw Davies, why we did not have this weather in July.
LATE SUMMER is often hot, hot, hot in […]
Sitting here at home, gazing out the office window, musing a la blog on the glories of retirement, thinking of how lucky I am to be in this burg, rather than TO or Montreal. I must be strange, but there is something about K-town when the weather is good, no, very good, that makes […]
Police: Woman drugs boss’s coffee so he’ll ‘chill’
Friday, March 13, 2009
(03-13) 18:18 PDT Bryant, Ark. (AP) –
Police said a woman has been arrested for allegedly slipping some tranquilizers into her boss’s coffee because she felt “he needed to chill out.” Police said the 24-year-old woman admitted to detectives that she slipped the drugs into veteranarian […]
APOCRYPHAL, SOMETHING THE ONION MIGHT DREAM UP, BUT WITH ITS WEIGHT IN INSIGHT……
(reprinted without permission — The Brushback knows……)
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AMES, IA–Members of the Make-A-Wish Foundation struggled to come up with a response to a dying 9-year-old boy’s request that they punch slugger Barry Bonds in the nuts repeatedly. The boy, Danny Wickman […]
SO THERE ALL YOU MATH WIZARDS!!!
Palin rails against ‘anonymous, pathetic bloggers’
By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer
Thursday, February 5, 2009
(02-05) 08:29 PST New York (AP) –
Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is still mad at media coverage of her candidacy, particularly “anonymous, pathetic bloggers” who she says spread falsehoods about her.
The Alaska governor also says […]
WINNIPEG MOVED TO SASKATCHEWAN! THANKS TO THE SF GATE FOR THIS NOVEL GEOGRAPHY…..
In northern Minnesota, it was 35 below zero in Roseau and 36 below in Hallock, with wind chills down to 45 below in Hibbing. Just to the north, Winnipeg, Saskatchewan, also hit minus 36, according to Environment Canada.