The Newark New Jersey city council hasawarded a $100,000 US no-bid contractto the Newark Weekly News in exchange for the paper only printing positive stories about the city. The idea was pitched to council by Howard Scott, who owns the paper. Council, in a decision that I’m sure comes as a surprise to just about …
Monthly Archives: November 2005
Wrestling Watching Weekend
Hello and happy Sunday. I hope everybody’s having a good weekend. Mine’s been great especially since I decided to turn off my telephone because the thing was driving me nuts. Between the millions of telemarketers who seem to be out in full force right now, people calling me with nothing to say, and everybody else …
Mayor: Sever Thumbs of Graffiti Artists
RENO, Nev. (AP) – Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman has suggested that those who deface freeways with graffiti should have their thumbs cut off on television. Goodman, appearing Wednesday on the “Nevada Newsmakers” television show, said, “In the old days in France, they had beheading of people who commit heinous crimes. “You know, we have …
Come On Now, Play Nice
Jury Rules Against Woman in Genital Gluing I’m not sure what’s funnier here, the story, or the fact that the name of the woman involved in it is O’Toole. Irony rules.
Read the Fine Print!
Well, I was reading something in the paper today that makes me feel a lot better. I was starting to think a while back that I must have been a really stupid kid, because I didn’t get all the meanings of stuff that was in songs and stories for kids. I’d just remember the funny …
Football’s Back
So this morning at 10am tickets to the CFL Eastern Division Championship went on sale for the Rogers Centre (or the Ted) in Toronto. The game’s got the Argos’ and whoever wins the Eastern Semi-final. I got my tickets finished at 10:02am and the closest I could get was 2nd deck, 8th row. Don’t get …
Wow, Some People Need Sleep.
I saw something yesterday that made me laugh. I came down to what passes for a bus terminal in this town and jumped on a city bus. Now, bear in mind this bus’s main job is to shuttle people from the downtown to the university, which takes maybe 15 minutes. I got on the bus, …
Vomit Comet, Venturing into the World of feeds
Well, we’re just going up in the world fast aren’t we? Earlier in the week, we got given the gift of trackbacks, and now we discovered that we can have a feed for this place. So since everyone and their blogging brother is jumping on the RSS/Atom bandwagon, we decided to test it out. I …
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