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150 years ago today one Colonel Sanders rode into town. In retrospect, going into the chicken business would have worked out better than getting a promotion and a fort named after him.

Eunice's...

Summer reading edition:


The new Carl Hiaasen, Bad Monkey. This is just a blast and it's hard to read much else until it's done.
What There Is to Say We Have Said: the correspondence of Eudora...

Apparently, Bicycling is the safest form of transportation.

That does it. I'm back on my crusade to make pedestrians and drivers wear helmets.

June 16, 1904: Leopold Bloom went for a walk. Anyone doing a Bloomsday crawl?

http://youtu.be/lKY5fmDGVLs

This works better if you know enough cricket to catch the references

Duck caller ID. Duck call forwarding. Duck call waiting. There's a ton of potential here.

I want to see a video of him trying to go up Walnut with this thing:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1xjxg1Y7q8w

fixed:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/01/commissioner-anti-muslim-facebook-post/2125953/

I've been hunting for this quote for years and it popped up today in an domestic spying discussion:

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNt-uMaZ72o

This just came out:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h1NT--Oq1Cg/UYFxLUuisDI/AAAAAAAABkg/gzixTVPgYZE/s320/Tell+About+Night+Flowers.jpg
Tell about Night Flowers
Eudora Welty's Gardening Letters,...

Um, yes, because it's simple & it works? Interesting concepts, but I'm not really sure I need my phone to communicate with my bike lights (not that they asked us Androids). Can turn signals really...

Via Knoxville Opera's FB:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/181254_10151657200251208_1271382246_n.jpg

Crazy fog last night at Wrigley (further proof that they should go back to playing day games).

http://i.imgur.com/61DImwnl.jpg

In the top of the first there was nearly a five-way collision as...

So the Supremes ruled against GPS tracking without a warrant, and cell phone data contain GPS and other location info. Anyone working this angle or am I missing something?

I love a 9-3 double play.

http://www.diehardsport.com/2013/06/04/mlb-debut-yasiel-puig-includes-dp-game/

To be fair, if it wasn't Puig's first game the runner might have known better than to...

http://i.imgur.com/6Zg50mA.png

So that's what they're up to. I got to see some new (to me) parts of the city today working out a detour around the road closure.

June 6th, 1944. Two of my great uncles took a trip to the beach.

By weird coincidence, I just watched season 1, episode 4 of the original Yes, Minister! and it was about pretty much the same issue. There is nothing new under the sun.
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You might be the editorial board of a left-wing propaganda outlet if you think the Obama administration has lost all credibility on domestic surveillance.
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In Texas you can shoot an escort who won't sleep with you.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Jury-acquits-escort-shooter-4581027.php

If you lived next to the tree then the tree would have been there when you bought the place. The neighbors wanted to keep the tree and the experts were consistent on this one. Cortese offered to...

He did say, "Negroes are not barred from organized baseball by the commissioner and never have been in the 21 years I have served. There is no rule in organized baseball prohibiting their...

^ Hits the n... anyway, it's a familiar conversation.