Greensboro blogger Ed Cone points to a story about a Virginia legislator trying to outlaw truck ornamants that resemble…well, bull testicles.
No, really.
I’ve yet to see these things on the road, but apparently a lot of guys (and gals, potentially) with pickup trucks like to hang them from their trailer hitches.
The offending pair:
The legislator says he [...]
Yesterday Jeri Rowe dropped a package on my desk from the Independent Film Channel.
Inside were two DVDs of Japanese Anime.
Not usually my thing — I think anime is an acquired taste that requires a very specific sensibility or a lot of acid (or both) — but these caught my eye.
One of them is an anime [...]
I’ve been looking at more online gambling sites — and it’s a strange, strange world.
There’s basketball betting, baseball betting and football betting, sure — but did you realize you can bet on Snooker? Also handball and darts, apparently.
I’ve never even seen “Hurling” — but apparently you can bet on this, online.
I guess there are some [...]
(CNN) — Sir Edmund Hillary, who gained worldwide fame after he and guide Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, has died, according to New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark.
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Hillary took his fame in stride and considered himself just an ordinary beekeeper.
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I just read that the online gaming business apparently makes $5.2 billion annually, in the U.S. alone.
How is that possible?
What am I missing?
This is mostly World of Warcraft and massively multiplayer online games, right?
Or does this also include subscriptions for console games like Halo and war games online?
How is it possible that a an industry [...]
It does sometimes seem to me that VH1 is playing “Best Week Ever” or “I Love New York” 24-hours a day.
But right now they’re playing this great documentary (Rock Docs: Drug Years – Teenage Wasteland, The 70s) where Wayne Kramer of the MC5 just said the following thing about heroin, Vietnam and crime in the [...]
Living in Greensboro, I feel like I’m getting screwed on wireless Internet.
Time Warner Cable seems to be the only real option if you want high speed cable Internet and you live in the city — and I feel like they’re gouging me.
I want high speeds, I want it to be reliable, and I don’t [...]
People in my family don’t generally live long enough to need rest homes.
Cigarettes, alcohol, genetic predispositions to diseases that kill them fairly young — it’s just never been something we’ve had to deal with.
The few people in my family who I can remember living to very ripe old ages continued living by themselves or with [...]
John Edwards has come in third in New Hampshire.
His wife Elizabeth just came out to talk to the crowd in Manchester. The song she came out to? “Firecracker” by North Carolina’s own Ryan Adams.
Contains the great (and maybe eerily appropriate) line: “Everybody wants to go forever/I just want to burn up hard and bright”
Then [...]
Bill Richardson: It’s kind of like watching my high school social studies teacher run.
Hillary Clinton: While I have no real affection for her or her politics, I can’t help but reflect sadly on the fact that she put thoughts of her own political career on hold for decades to help Bill run unsuccessfully for congress, [...]
Landmark, the company that owns the News & Record, may be sold.
If it happens, and it isn’t certain, it will likely be a ways down the road — still, I got an awful sinking feeling in my stomach when I read the headline this morning, which is how most of the staff found out about [...]
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