Camp Sheehan is no more: The Camp Casey Memorial on Prairie Chapel Road was removed by thieves earlier today. Not a single item is left at the memorial site. Crew members working for McLennan County said they witnessed items being removed by an unidentified individual and contacted their office to inform commissioners. Upon arrival at …
Open Threads
Thoughts on Reconstruction
Robert George offers up some thoughts on the reconstruction of NO.
Shocking News
This is the weirdest thing I have read in a while: An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building. Frank Clewer, who was wearing a woollen shirt and a synthetic …
DAMNIT TO HELL!
Am I the only person on the planet who didn’t know Bush was addressing the nation tonight? Jeebus. Take a day off reading blogs and watch the news, settle d0wn in front of the tube with some Choco-Mint Chip ice cream and a two-hour CSI (that I missed earlier in the year), and Bush is …
Go Help Jeff
Jeff Goldstein has a long post up on the levee breaches and why it took so long to plug them (something I find interesting, since it still boggles my mind that the solution was ‘big sandbags,’), and when you are done reading that, go hit his tip jar, as he had to move to a …
Tunch Shots
Trying out the office digital camera for something else, so I thought I would bring you some shots of the roommate: People who pose cats for a living do not earn enough money. If I could figure out how to turn the flash off on this thing, I bet he would stop scowling, too.
Fabulous
Just the kind of thing we should all be proud of…