The loonies in Berkely apparently aren't the only ones who have Marine problems:
The Toledo Blade reports that Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner ordered the Marines out Friday as their buses were arriving for a three-day training mission in the city, where they have periodically trained since 2004.
It would be tough to be a newspaper journalist in Iceland:
On some days there's really just no news to report here. None. Zero. Zilch. But even if there's no news, there are still thousands of column inches to fill every single day, which means editors and journalists must get creative.
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If you liked the "fried egg/brain on drugs" ad, check this out, "the 10 funniest anti-drug commercials ever." I like the talking dog one because whoever wrote it has no clue about marijuana. And I like the Rachel Leigh Cook one because, well, it's got Rachel Leigh Cook.
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I remember alerting you when Scotland challenged Fort Wayne's "Room for Dreams" as the greatest marketing slogan of all time, by spending $250,000 to come up with "Welcome to Scotland." Now there's another contender:
This seems like a harsh approach to discouraging bad habits, though I sometimes wonder how close to it we will get on anti-smoking measures in this country:
A young Iranian man has been sentenced to hang for repeatedly drinking alcohol which is strictly banned in the Islamic republic, the Etemad newspaper reported on Wednesday.
OK, this is fabulous news, so go out there and spend some money and turn this economy around!
U.S. drivers could enjoy a drop of up to 50 cents per gallon in gasoline prices by this spring as high fuel prices and the threat of a recession force them to conserve, experts said on Wednesday.
RIP:
TAMPA, Fla. - Harry Richard Landis, who enlisted in the Army in 1918 and was one of only two known surviving U.S. veterans of World War I, has died. He was 108.
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Nice work if you can get it:
COOS BAY, Ore. - A police survey says panhandlers outside Wal-Mart in Coos Bay can make $300 a day. Inside, it takes a clerk a week to make that much.
Police say people who have a problem with that needn't look to the law - asking for money is considered protected free speech.
San Francisco voters suffer a sudden attack of common sense:
Alcatraz escaped plans for change, with voters rejecting a proposal that would have torn down the island's notorious prison to erect a global peace center.
A friend was telling me last week that every married woman she knew had been complaining about their husbands. "Did I miss the annoucement of Irritable Spouse Week?" Then I read this article:
If your spouse already bugs you now, the future is bleak. New research suggests couples view one another as even more irritating and demanding the longer they are together.
