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A Florida man was awarded $650,000 for an injury he sustained when he was hit in the eye by a stripper’s shoe. (via) A D.C. burger joint has been ordered to stop grilling because the “intense and noxious odor” it creates causes employees of a neighboring business to suffer itchy and watery eyes, nausea and […] Bulletin Board One of those weeks combined with the onset of my “fall cold” to make things a bit sparse this week. So it goes. Question of the Week With the local daily now running the Pearls Before Swine comic strip, why is it gracing us strips from 2006 rather than current ones? Worthwhile Reading […] Years ago the professor in my political ideologies class laid out a view of the political spectrum that I’ve never forgotten. It does not, he said, resemble a line with a far left, a far right and a center. Instead, it is a nearly closed circle where the extremes of the spectrum are turning back […] There are certain books you read during your life that stick with you. For me, one of those is one I first read while still in college, Mark Vonnegut’s The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity. First published in 1975 (and reissued in 2002), the book is a frank and compelling story of a young […] Dude, You Killed a Dell! True, unfortunately. Tuesday morning I spilled a beverage on my less than two month old work laptop, frying both the motherboard and the hard drive. Fortunately, our IT guy had not yet blown away my old one so I didn’t have to start from scratch. The carcass is on its […] |
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