Never say the green goofs can't possibly get any goofier:
THEY'RE faithful, friendly and furry - but under their harmless, fluffy exteriors, dogs and cats, the world's most popular house pets, use up more energy resources in a year than driving a car, a new book says.
Most of the Soupy Sales obits concentrate on his national presence, but the Detroit Free Press has a good read on his early days as a local TV celebrity:
Sales was best known to Detroiters as the goofy yet cerebral host of “Lunch with Soupy,” a half-hour show that featured Sales hamming it up in a variety of sometimes surreal situations.
An article in Reason argues that the death of newspapers won't mean the death of news:
Apparently the wild is calling us back. Fishing license sales are up 8.1 percent in Indiana this year and 7.7 percent in the nation. How come?
Officials said one reason fishing is becoming more popular could be because the slumping economy may give people more time to enjoy outdoor activities.
That's a little clueless, don't you think? How about, "The slumping economy has given more people a strong reason to supplement their food supplies"?
There has been a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who say there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising. And fewer also see global warming as a very serious problem -- 35% say that today, down from 44% in April 200
Wow. Suddenly, Mark Sanford looks like the classy South Carolina Republican:
Two Republican county officials in South Carolina have apologized after they disparaged Jews in a newspaper op-ed in support of a fiscally conservative U.S. senator.
The chairmen, Edwin Merwin Jr. and Jim Ulmer, wrote the newspaper in backing Republican Sen. Jim DeMint's opposition to congressional earmarks.
Richard Heene's balloon is held for evidence in the Larimer County Sheriff's evidence area in Fort Collins, Colo., Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Will Powers)
Apparently, the Obama administration is planning to announce new federal policy guidelines that call for ignoring medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws. Such a move would be a step in the right direction:
It's nice to work for a company that cares. They've started putting reminders in the restrooms (at least the men's rooms) reminding us to "Wash your hands!" There's even a helpful chart in one of them, similar to the one I now place here:
A Baptist church gets crazy, and it's not even the Westboro "God hates fags" Baptist Church:
A Baptist Church near Asheville, N.C., is hosting a "Halloween book burning" to purge the area of "Satan's" works, which include all non-King James versions of the Bible, popular books by many religious authors and even country music.
