http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080123/ap_en_ce/people_amy_winehouse_7 A video of Amy Winehouse shows the Grammy-nominated singer smoking … something. In grainy footage obtained by British tabloid The Sun, Winehouse, 24, is seen inhaling fumes from some sort of pipe reportedly hours before showing up for husband Blake Fielder-Civil’s court appearance in London on Friday… She sits down and, before lighting the […]
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The Death of Heath Ledger – NYTimes.com
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/actor-heath-ledger-is-found-dead/index.html?hp I had started a post after Brad Renfro died, saying that I thought this might be the Year of the Dead Celebrity. I nixed the posting in case I was perceived to be starting off 2008 on the wrong foot (as did Brad Renfro – *ahem*). With Heath Ledger apparently topping himself today, though, […]
Justice Reigns: Stumble Troll BANNED by SU | Collective Thoughts
http://collective-thoughts.com/2008/01/16/justice-reigns-stumble-troll-banned-by-su/ I don’t usually involve myself in flame wars, but this seems to be an anti-SU day for me. There’s currently a lot of fuss about some Stumbler sending “death threats” in the form of one of the TravisKab-istes style dismissals. While these are not my favourite pithy remark, to see them as menacing action-items […]
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071223/ap_on_an/mortgage_crisis_4;_ylt=AqoF6PEcw.Dhgi6aibG7AQAE1vAI After a slow and stumbling start, official Washington is scrambling to try to prevent the unfolding mortgage crisis from pushing the country into recession during an election year. There is a strong feeling, though, that the government will need to do more to avert a financial disaster. Congratulations, George W. Bush! An unwinnable war […]
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http://blogs.business2.com/apple/2007/08/apple-to-nbc-dr.html NBC’s bluff has been called by Apple, and its content has been yanked from the iTunes store. This despite NBC making up a huge percentage of the store’s business. As usual, the contention is the network wanting to charge more for the downloads than it would for a higher-quality DVD box set. I’d go […]
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http://www.ohgizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/esc.jpg I’m preparing to leave early tomorrow, to start the second leg of my trip. Berlin, Rome, Normandy London and a couple of cruises are all pencilled in, along with some TBD locations between now and December. Once again, I’ll be reliant on Internet cafes and open wireless networks for access, so my Stumbling will […]
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070828/ap_en_ot/odd_miss_teen_south_carolina_1;_ylt=ApFHTMC.wzXJXTJksLLE7w0E1vAI Intellectually-deficient American teen beauty pageant contestant (and boy, aren’t there a whack of redundancies in there) flubs a question about geography. Or geographic philosophy and American pedagogy, anyway: …She was again asked why one-fifth of Americans can’t locate the U.S. on a map. “I would love to re-answer that question,” Upton said. “Well personally, […]
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070828/ap_on_go_co/craig_arrest_18;_ylt=As9nAa78qe7Nf8NLo51Ot_UE1vAI Another Republican anti-gay legislator has been exposed as having a pro-gay social life. This one’s kind of strange, though. He was arrested for “lewd conduct” in a public toilet: Roll Call, citing the report, said Sgt. Dave Karsnia made the arrest after an encounter in which he was seated in a stall next to […]
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http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g219/Azenity/rumsfield.gif Animated GIF of Donald Rumsfeld being more productive than he’d been at any point in his 40-year “diplomatic” career.
Rocky Mountain locust – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_locust Anyone reading the Little House on the Prairie series will probably remember the locust incident with particular vividity. In On the Banks of Plum Creek, the family’s homestead is ravaged by a cloud of locusts that arrive in such numbers they blocked out the sun. I’d been wondering why such invasions no longer make […]