Untitled Document Young woman buys cute cheap Chinese flipflops at Walmart, wears for a few hours, suffers painful burns for weeks.
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Pot crops, campsite found in preserve — chicagotribune.com n a Cook County forest preserve, about 200 yards from a highway commuters hum along every day, authorities uncovered an elaborate marijuana-growing operation, with 6-foot-tall plants nearly ready to harvest and campsites stocked with beer, canned food, insect repellent and, on one cot, a copy of High Times magazine.On Tuesday, as an Illinois National Guard helicopter circled above the Crabtree Nature Center Forest Preserve near northwest suburban Barrington, federal agents joined local police in chopping and burning as many as 30,000 marijuana plants found last month when a Forest Preserve District intern…
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BBC – Radio 4 Document – Greenham’s Hidden Secret The link from Boing Boing looked pretty intriguing, so I’m giving this a listen. Contrary to BB’s original headline, W’s grandad probably wasn’t a leader, although he later expressed admiration for Herr Hitler.
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10 virtually instant ways to improve your life – lifehack.org Stop jumping to conclusions. There are two common ways this habit increases people’s difficulties. First, they assume that they know what is going to happen, so they stop paying attention and act on their assumption instead. Human beings are lousy fortune-tellers. Most of what they assume is wrong. That makes the action wrong too. The second aspect of this habit is playing the mind-reader and assuming you know why people do what they do or what they’re thinking. Wrong again, big time. More relationships are destroyed by this particular kind…
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The Lead The Christian Post has news that Dr. James Dobson, of Focus on the Family has officially renounced Harry Potter and all the associated “Harry Potter products.” “‘In a story about Christians’ views on the Harry Potter books and films, reporter Jacqueline Salmon wrote that ‘Christian parenting guru James Dobson has praised the Potter books,’’ the statement read. ‘This is the exact opposite of Dr. Dobson’s opinion – in fact, he said a few years ago on his daily radio broadcast that ‘We have spoken out strongly against all of the Harry Potter products…’’ Your humble news editor-of-the-day, having…
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) I feel as if I’ve broken the surface of a deep, still pool – I’ve been submerged in the latest and last book in the Harry Potter series, and a few minutes ago I read the last chapters, the last paragraphs, the last words, the last page. And now I’m breathing deeply and taking a look around me for the first time in a while. It’s not that I’ve spent the entire weekend with my nose buried in a book – I did end up spending some time at the rummage sale…
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U.S. Agency May Reverse 8 Decisions on Wildlife – New York Times 6 kinds of win and awsum!!!1! Another appointee bites the dust (tags: whale WheelsComingOff CorruptRepublicans) Questions arise on FEMA trailer resale – Los Angeles Times (tags: ThrowTheBastardsOut tailspin WheelsComingOff failure Katrina FEMA)
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camera The inspection was done on the pre-pour work the other day, and today the workmen just put the wire reinforcement down, so we think they’re going to pour the new driveway today. It’s my theory that the company doing the street resurfacing does these little side projects on Saturday, because they’re on the Village’s payroll during the week, but working for their own company if they’re paid by homeowners to redo driveways and entrance walkways. We’ll keep an eye on that and then later I’m going over to Holy Moly for the big rummage sale.
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U.S. to lift ban on lighters on airline flights | U.S. | Reuters WASHINGTON Reuters – Screeners at U.S. airports will stop confiscating common cigarette lighters because authorities now consider them a distraction from efforts to find bombs and other threats, officials said on Friday. …but flame retardant gels will still have to be carried on in a 3.5 ounce bottle, sealed in a Ziploc â„¢ bag.
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Spoilers Ho! There are graphic links to upcoming episodes and titles with far too much information if you look too closely at the right hand sidebar on Behind the Sofa. But it’s a “for adults only” kind of fan/review site with plenty of, er, bodily fluids being bandied about, spewed, and wiped up. But it’s quite funny and insightful reading, once you step around the gleeful puddles of fangoo generated by the reappearance of some crabby monsters – just as a kind of slobby bottom-dressing to the main action – from a “classic” episode in 1967. Behind the Sofa –…