Posts tagged “News”

Palin v. Biden

I simply cannot have been the only one who watched the vice-presidential debate tonight and thought that Palin’s answers were eerily similar to this famous speech. I mean, really? Really? Nucular? Poliferation? Infastructure? Here’s a random quote I grabbed from the transcript: John McCain, in referring to the fundamental of our economy being strong, he

Yahoo! Sports Critical of IOC Pres.

Dan Wetzel of Yahoo! Sports criticizes IOC President Rogge: Jacques Rogge is so bought, so compromised, the president of the IOC doesn’t have the courage to criticize China for telling a decade of lies to land itself these Olympic Games. All the promises made to get these Games — on Tibet, Darfur, pollution, worker safety,

Woman Bills DOT for Wasted Gas

Mrs. Greenburg said in an interview that the delay was doubly unpleasant for her Maine coon cat, Sammy, who howled through the entire experience in a pet carrier in the back seat.

The comments on these amazing photos of the Large Hadron Collider are almost as awesome as the machine.

2024-01-21: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

There’s a neat story on SFGate.com about the 101st anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake. This year only one man who was there at the time made it to the festivities, 104-yr old Herbert Hamrol. As far as I’m concerned, the most fascinating thing about the article is not that this man is over a century old. It’s not even that the old guy got out of bed at 2:30 in the morning to make it to the ceremony. It’s that it notes Hamrol took the day off work to attend. What the hell?! Retire, dude!

How is this a mystery?

You have to get out of bed pretty early to pull one over on the local coroner in Los Angeles. Southern California kicker Mario Danelo was drunk when he plunged over a cliff to his death, but the cause of his death was “undetermined,” according to a coroner’s report released Monday. He’s a football player

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bartender.live

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Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.