Hello friends,I guess its hard trying to describe what its like here, the people we are replacing are very happy to be going, in some ways I get caught up in the excitement myself, when they talk about where they are going to go, what they are going to do when they get home. I…
Month: September 2006
Women Rob Waimanalo Ice Cream Parlor and Candy Shop at Gunpoint
It’s hard to be a big woman… cd Honolulu police are looking for two women who robbed an ice cream parlor in Waimanalo at gunpoint. The only employee working at Dave’s Ice Cream at the time of the robbery told police that the women came into the store at about 5:45 p.m. on Wednesday and…
Bush on Global Warming
Just watch it….it’s closer to the truth than anything Disney is producing…. cd Will Ferrell – Bush on Global Warming on Transbuddha
Republican Disney trying to blame 9-11 on a Blowjob
Just in case you were wondering who to blame 9-11, the war on terror, the mess in Iraq, all the dead on both sides, and the loss of civil liberties combined with a decline in quality of life throughout most of the world, those family oriented, compassionate conservatives at Disney are pointing their finger with…
Tree House People of New Guinea
As a guy that reads a lot of anthropology, this appeals to me. As a descendant of a long line of fire making monkeys, this appeals to me. As a guy that doesn’t eat a lot of meat…well 2 out of 3 ain’t bad. An interesting note about the Korowai is that they consider the…
Army Worm Wine
Thanks to the Rev for hooking me up with his secret source for worm wine… cd Ray Reigstad of Duluth, Minn. is the producer and bottler (but not, unfortunately, seller) of Army Worm Wine, which he distills from fermented forest tent caterpillars of the species Malacosoma disstria. Reigstad explains the process of straining, fermenting, and…
Letters from Iraq #4
The latest from David… its strange, you can’t help but get effected by the information that comes through here, all day we here reports of attacks and ambushes on Coalition forces and the rampant revenge killings in the cities, dead bodies are discarded on the sides of streets so badly mutilated and tortured…
* CAMP DEMOCRACY September 5 – 21, Washington D.C. *
http://www.campdemocracy.org Supporters of war protester Sheehan to move group to Washington By Associated Press WASHINGTON – Anti-war demonstrators who protested near President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, said Tuesday they are planning to shift their protests to Washington next month. The planned protests and events, which will be known as Camp Democracy, emerged from activist…
Update: He's a few years short of being the shortest….
Boy’s record claim given short shrift Fourteen-year-old Khagendra Thapa Magar, who is 20 inches tall and weighs 10 pounds, will have to wait another four years before he can be considered as the world’s shortest man.
Look deeply into my telephone…
This happens to me all the time. Of course, this is a good opportunity to bring up the strangest psychic phenomenon of all (to me anyway) and also the most annoying. I call it convergence. Do you ever notice that when you are walking or riding a bike etc, you can see a car coming…