A new one for the "cruel & unusual" file:
A death row inmate scheduled for execution in October says he's so fat that Ohio executioners would have trouble finding his veins and that his weight could diminish the effectiveness of one of the lethal injection drugs.
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This report might shock a few of you, but I lived just around Lake Michigan from Chicago for eight years, so it struck me as just belaboring the obvious:
It's getting tougher for the dishonest, the mentally unstable and the overweight to get hired as Cook County jail guards these days. As a result, fewer guards are getting hired.
In San Francisco, it won't be just the politicians who aren't allowed private lives. Even residents' trash won't be safe there:
Garbage collectors would inspect San Francisco residents' trash to make sure pizza crusts aren't mixed in with chip bags or wine bottles under a proposal by Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Omigod, a Zeppelin comeback! Oh, wait:
It's sad to see someone once heroic not know when to get off the stage before he ends up a pathetic shell of his former greatness. No, not Brett Favre. This guy:
In 1970, the average American ate about 16.4 pounds of food a week, or 2.3 pounds daily. By 2006, the average intake grew by an additional 1.8 pounds a week.
And the big excitement last week? The possibility of being able to take a pill that will fool your body into thinking it has exercised? Now, where did I put that remote?
Don't know what they did, but it must have been something bad, because this is surely God's punishment:
The Topeka Fire Department is investigating a small fire today outside of a church whose members protest at soldier's funerals.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports on its Web site that a fence and garage at Westboro Baptist Church became engulfed in flames early today.
Guess they were small sins, though. Fred was probably just cross-dressing or something.
The Department of Homeland Security is getting a little overzealous:
Rush Limbaugh, the piker, is celebrating his 20th year of radio syndication ths week. These guys, though they've been syndicated only since 1995, have been together on the air for 25 years. And, yes, I am a fan:
Bob Kevoian and Tom Griswold, the creators and hosts of the long-running "Bob & Tom Show," have renewed their long-term contract with Premiere Radio Networks.
One more reason to not be sad about missing the 2008 Olympics:
AP)
Polishing up Beijing for the Olympics has extended to the city government telling residents what not to wear, advising against too many colors, white socks with black shoes, and parading in pajamas.
