OK, this hasn’t hit any news wires yet. Remember, you heard it here first!! Cassie Johnson, the skip (captain) for the US Olympic curling team, got engaged while in Florence, Italy on February 28th to her boyfriend Corrie Potter! Considering they’ve been back to the US since Tuesday night, March 7th, I’m surprised the wires [...]
I’ve avoided the topic of last month’s tsunami until now. No particular reason other than the holidays, taxes, and the stomach flu. I am saddened by the unprecedented number of losses. Unfortunately, it seems my early prediction of losses exceeding 180,000 is coming to fruition.
The personal stories are almost overwhelming:
Ena Jenkins of Australia suspects that [...]
According to the San Jose Mercury News, an 89-year-old man was killed yesterday morning by a driver who proceeded through the intersection when the signal turned green. The man was struck by a Ford S-350 pickup driven by a female from Boulder Creek. The driver was preparing to turn onto the Highway 85 south on [...]
[This has been sitting in my Nowhere-Near-Finished pile for a long time, so I just decided to spit it out just to get something written. I think I'm going to have to get away from the long essay/diatribe trend towards which I had been heading, and just fall back to rambling about whatever is on [...]
Excerpted from an article from The Fresno Bee:
A man drowned Sunday in the Kings River trying to help another man whose kayak became tangled under a bridge below Pine Flat Dam. The victim died about 10:15 a.m. after he went into the river on an inflatable kayak to reach a man yelling for help, witnesses [...]
On Tuesday, coalition forces entered the center of Baghdad to find a jubilant crowd of Iraqi citizens trying in vain to pull down a metal statue of Saddam that had been commissioned to commemorate his 65th birthday. Unveiled less than a year ago, the statue was eventually pulled down with the help of a US [...]
