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Martha Stewart laughs out loud
Ethical reformer NY guv connected to prostitution ring. No, really.
A hell of a headline
Good news, sure, but it still makes you pause:
Smoking, drinking, pot use fall among 8th-graders
Grade school is definitely not the place I remember.
Point of comparison
I was struck yesterday by this utter certainty: Most Americans are much more concerned with the outcome of today’s Patriots-Colts game than the state of emergency and suspension of the constitution in Pakistan.
Goddamn.
Do not call
People who can’t be bothered to re-register their phone numbers with the national Do Not Call list deserve to have their precious dinner hours and episodes of Heroes interrupted by Acme or whomever. Having to renew your registration every five years is not particularly onerous. You burn more calories changing the batteries in your smoke [...]
Things that aren’t worth my time
In no particular order:
Petraeus - Betray Us - Souffle Us - Whatever.
The merry widower O.J. Simpson.
“Gym rage.”
What a day
Alberto Gonzales resigns. Michael Vick pleads guilty. Owen Wilson reportedly attempts suicide. Criminy, it’s not even noon yet.
Don’t be surprised if the day ends with a stock market crash and a combined Al Qaeda/Martian attack on the entire East Coast.
Not a terrorist, just a moron
As the saying goes: shine a laser at a jet, go to jail. That’s the law.
The FBI told KFOX they arrested a Clint man accused of shining a laser at commercial airplanes, and they said the type of laser he used could cause disorientation in the cockpit, including momentary blindness for the pilots.
“It is very [...]
Come fly with me
I find I don’t really have much to say about Kent Couch, he of the most recent flight by balloon-suspended lawn chair. The only moral to be drawn from the story is that people are much stranger than we can suppose. The news item did put me in mind of an earlier bizarro air traveler, [...]
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