Thursday, November 05, 2009

...and that's what I like about the South!

What? His sheep was "indisposed"?

SC man gets 3 years in prison for sex with horse - Yahoo! News: "A South Carolina man caught on video having sex with a horse was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison after pleading guilty for the second time in two years to abusing the creature."
For the second time. The second time! Don't you know he'll have a story to tell his prison roommate. heh.

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Monday, October 26, 2009

Concert-Hop in Knoxville

New York Magazine Spotlights my home town by praising with faint damnation.

From weekly jazz performances to lo-fi indie shows, this once-decaying football town has become a new hot spot for music. Here’s what to tune in to this fall.
But they do know the best place to be on an October Saturday...



The Weekend Escape Plan -- Knoxville, Tennessee -- New York Magazine

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Thursday, October 08, 2009

But nothing about gerbils or fudge

Baker Hughes Develops Packer System for Openhole Annular Isolation

Another totally out of context headline that sounds squeamishly suggestive to those of us who wouldn't know a tool pusher if he bit us on the... well, you figure it out.

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Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Why the stereotypes? you decide

I always bristle when I hear quips like "If your family tree doesn't branch you may be from Tennessee". Then I saw these "most viewed" items on the Knoxville news site and just thought "Oh, hell... it's true."


Thomas Wolfe got it close. You may be able to go home again, but would you really want to?

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Monday, October 05, 2009

Mom was right - Candy rots your brain

According to this article, I should be a serial killer. When I was a kid, candy was a vegetable.

[...]regardless of other environmental and lifestyle factors, like family-income level, parenting style or children's level of education, the data suggested it was only the frequency of confectionery consumption in childhood that strongly predicted adult violence.
Eating Candy in Childhood Linked to Adult Crime - Yahoo! News

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Monday, September 28, 2009

More's the pity; "Walmart is America"

I can only conclude that somewhere our founding fathers are weeping bitter tears.

Wal-Mart best symbolizes America, a new poll finds - Yahoo! News

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Saturday, September 26, 2009

Great Tits Eat Bats In Times Of Need

The article is something boring about birds and bats and starving, but the headline is classic!

Great Tits Eat Bats In Times Of Need

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