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• ‘Stupid crooks’ should be a legitimate criminal classification: I read something in this morning’s local paper (yes, I DO still read newspapers) that convinced me that “stupid crooks” should be a bona fide classification under the law. Three [...]
• News overload? Probably time to give it a rest: One thing I’m learning about myself since starting this blog — it’s really easy to get burned out about all the idiocy going on in today’s world. You can take [...]
• Show respect when you use term ‘pond scum,’ please: I was reading an interesting article online earlier today about the wonders of wildlife some urban grade school kids experienced when they went on a field trip to a nearby [...]
• Never know what people are looking for online, do you?: You never know what sort of things people may look for on the Internet, do you? Sometimes it’s just fun to see all the oddball stuff out there, whether we’re [...]
• Who knows? Maybe this guy’s recovery is sort of a ‘Christmas miracle’: (Editor’s Note: This post was originally posted last year. It is being brought to the top of the blog as a function of a plugin I use which takes “old” [...]
• Skateboarding icon Hawk hits White House hallways: To the amazement of some and amusement of others, pro skateboarding icon Tony Hawk rolled through some of the hallways of the White House as part of a Father’s Day [...]
• Need brain surgery? DON’T GO HERE, would be my best advice: I’ve never had brain surgery (that I remember?), nor have I had any immediate family or friends who have had brain surgery. But I would think, if I needed brain [...]
• Quick everyone, send a thank-you email to Newt Gingrich: Sometimes conservative Republican politicians just puzzle me; sometimes they astound me. In the case of former Rep. Newt Gingrich, the term would be “astound.” Here’s a guy who left the [...]
• When does clothing stop being funny and become ‘disruptive’?: When do funny t shirts become “disruptive or inflammatory”? The county I live in has decreed that people wearing “clothing, apparel, or other accessories containing distruptive or inflammatory language or [...]
• You think elections are expensive? How about Halloween?: I read a news story in our local paper a few days ago that says all the election races combined this year — presidential, congressional, senatorial, etc. — will total [...]
• Are you being ‘followed’ via your cell phone? Maybe, maybe not: I’ve heard all sorts of stories about GPS technology and cell phones, some of it disconcerting, some downright alarming. There’s a claim going around that anyone who owns a cell [...]
• And here I thought all along that swing sets in parks were a GOOD idea: Remember the swing sets you played on in your local park or playground when you were a kid? I do. Among my earliest memories are swinging in the local park [...]
• How to reward utilities customers who conserve — raise their rates, of course: I live in the third largest city in Missouri, or as we like to call it, the “big city with a small town heart” — or, as I like to [...]
• High-tech voting improvements seem to be missing the mark: My son was telling me recently that he heard of one of the primary elections recently had polling places being run by some people who were totally stumped by all [...]
• It’s odd the presidential primary stuff you can find through Google: I live in Missouri. Just for fun, I Googled the name of a nearby tourist trap — I mean tourist ATTRACTION, sorry — and it was really odd what I [...]
• Tip for clerks — don’t try to resist and risk dying over someone else’s money: We seem to have a guy in our city making a bid for notoriety as a serial convenience store robber. The police released photos of him today, following his suspected [...]
• When I was a kid, we didn’t need no stinking rechargeable batteries: Back in the Dark Ages when I was a kid, many years before Al Gore invented the Internet, we never needed no stinking rechargeable batteries — which would be a [...]
• Are you up to speed (UTS) on the wonderful wide world (WWW) of acronyms?: Human beings may or may not be the only creatures on the planet who use language. But this much is a sure bet: Humans are the only living beings on [...]
• Odd zoo story — director admits tiger’s enclosure fence was too low: I suppose I must applaud the honest of San Francisco Zoo Director Manuel A. Mollinedo — he told a press conference yesterday that the wall surrounding the tiger’s enclosure was [...]
• Of zoos and tigers — we must remember that these are wild animals: Over the years, I’ve read all sorts of bizarre stories of people jumping into zoo pens/cages/whatever to be with the animals. Not long ago, I think I read of someone [...]
• Church gunman in Colorado killed himself, police report: Aside from the horrible tragedies of those wounded and killed by the crazy man at a church and a missionary center in Colorado stands the oddity of the whole story. [...]
• Don’t speed and you probably won’t get a speeding ticket: There’s been a bit of a fuss locally in the “Readers’ Letters” section of our local newspaper over police tactics used to catch speeders. Namely, one very upset woman wrote [...]
• Calorie crusader goes after New York City fast food again: Does anybody with half a brain cell really thing there is any chance on God’s good green Earth that the calorie czars out there who take on the fast food [...]
• Goodbye Dolly — scientist who cloned sheep abandons technique: Dolly the sheep made history when she was cloned in 1996 in Scotland. Now, the scientist who developed the “nuclear transfer” method of stem cell cloning (forgive my very unscientific [...]
• I expected more when reading report about ‘Grandpa Bandit’: As someone who turned 60 last summer, I’m probably more sensitive to various forms of “ageism” or age discrimination than many of you, and a story I saw recently about [...]