I thought I'd been nagged by the best, but apparently not:
A woman's "nagging" led her husband to buy a ticket in the $7.5 million Powerball with a couple of minutes to spare on Saturday night.
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I have never been so glad to listen to my wife's nagging," he said.
Way to encourage her, pal. You now deserve what you get for the rest of your life.
Guess I'd better brace myself for all that extra work I'm going to have to do tomorrow:
People across the country are being urged to skip work Wednesday after calling in "gay."
The loosely organized protest, called "Day Without a Gay," (www.daywithoutagay.org) is intended as a statement against California's ban on same-sex marriage, along with other political developments considered anti-gay.
This may be the single worst idea I've seen in a month:
Thursday was the first time the George Bush Intercontinental Airport offered karaoke to harried holiday travelers. Over the past years, the airport invited school choirs to perform Christmas carols in the concourses
Wow, something I've been for years now has a name:
Bay Area waiters have a nickname for many of their customers these days: the non'trée.
Remember that "Twilight Zone" episode in which nobody realizes until too late that "To Serve Man" is a cookbook? Well, when Keanu Reeves says he is "a friend of the Earth" in the remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still," that doesn't mean what people think it does, either, and it shows just one of the two ways the re-makers have screwed up a classic movie.
Oh, come on -- criminal libel?
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A man accused of making unflattering online comments about his former lover and her attorney on Craigslist has been charged with two counts of criminal libel.
It must be nice to be planning on moving into a four-and-a-half-bath home with servants quarters and having The New York Times call it "downsizing":
Despite the fact that we're witnessing the biggest federal power grab of modern times, some people think we're on the verge of a new Libertarian Era of freedom:
Leo's human relations primer. Today's topic -- sexism. What it isn't:
Gov. Ed Rendell made some blunt remarks that could be construed as insulting, if not sexist, about Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, chosen for Homeland Security chief by President-elect Barack Obama.
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Rendell's words were picked up by an open microphone at the podium of the National Governors Conference, held yesterday morning at Independence Hall.
Two more agitations we could do without. First up, atheists gone wild:
The Courier-Journal says atheists are suing Kentucky over a clause in state law that says "safety and security of the Commonwealth cannot be achieved apart from reliance upon Almighty God."
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