Vagobond

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  • Miss America Leaves Jersey Heads to Vegas

    Somehow, I think Vegas is a much more appropriate home…wonder what sort of changes will occur…a no swimsuit competition? cd Faithful Follow Miss America to Las Vegas – Yahoo! News…

  • The Americanization of Arnold

    Arnold Schwarzenegger is severing ties with his hometown in Austria after politicians there had the gall (gasp!) to criticize him for allowing the execution of Tookie Williams to proceed. Arnold…

  • Vanuatu Volcano Bursts Into Life

    AMBAE ISLAND, Vanuatu – An erupting volcano on this remote South Pacific island burst into spectacular life Thursday — shooting steam and toxic gases 9,845 feet into the sky. Huge…

  • The Mess That Greenspan Made: Hummer Overfloweth

    Thanks to Chuck for sending this my way…. Hummer Overfloweth The word around town was that the Hummers weren’t moving. It looked like high gas prices and a White House…

  • The Biogas Engine that Could….

    Perhaps there is hope for us, my friends. God love the Swedes. First the Swedish Bikini Team and now this….. Perhaps now that the Mayor of Honolulu has scrapped our…

  • Bush Teleconference With Soldiers Staged

    (Okay, Captain X, you go ahead and tell the American people to trust me, Lieutenant Y, I want you to tell them that everything is going great, Seargent Z, you…

  • Mistake Leads to 29-Cent Gas Price – Yahoo! News

    (I like that there is absolutely no mention of personal ethics in this…this story is painted in tones of ‘what good luck!’ and yet the gas station owner has just…

  • Gas prices high? Try an eco-friendly, $3.5 mln Skycar – Yahoo! News

    ( I want one… here is the link to the Neiman Marcus Christmas Catalog..cd) Christmas Book Gas prices high? Try an eco-friendly, $3.5 mln Skycar – Yahoo! News CHICAGO (Reuters)…

  • Vegas Driver Saw Demons in Crowd

    (This story reminds me of one of my favorite movies of all time..”They Live”, except this is real and the people he plowed into didn’t live…cd) Vegas Driver Said to…

  • Marc Cohn Shot in Denver – Should have been Walking in Memphis

    (Okay, maybe the headline is crass…I just can’t resist. He didn’t die. Funny, I drove Elizabeth Vargas around not too long ago when she was doing a story on Lost.…

  • Toilet-seat art sits well with some

    When it comes to bathroom décor, Seeley Springman’s art brings a flush to some cheeks. Her custom toilet seats make people either laugh or gasp with embarrassment. The Clyde Hill…

  • ANNUAL NEOLOGISM CONTEST

    ANNUAL NEOLOGISM CONTEST Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers were asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. The…