On a Lighter Note…
Well, sorta: A memorable “Seinfeld” episode features Kramer and Newman taking thousands of cans and bottles to Michigan so they can get a nickel more per container than they would in New York, but beverage distributors say there’s nothing funny when it happens for real. In Maine, which has a more expansive bottle-redemption law than…
… to pre-heat the engine oil (even if it is insanely cold out). Here’s one way not to try and start your vehicle in cold weather: Don’t place burning charcoal briquettes under the engine. Workers at the Summit County Landfill found out the hard way Tuesday morning as temperatures were in the minus double digits.…
No question, snow removal can be a pain. But tempting as it may be, Abington police ask that you resist … shortcuts. [H/T Dave Barry’s blog.] An Abington man is being charged with creating bombs at his former address in Abington after police had been told the man was blowing up snow banks to avoid…
Courtesy Oceanstate Follies.
The delay in bringing this “coverage” to your attention was engendered entirely by myself and not by the estimable Mr. Hall, whose observations are invariably timely. I somehow missed a batch of his work from last month and this one was too fun important not to highlight. Courtesy Ocean State Follies
From Andrew Malcolm: For some reason it took a male Speaker of the House to accomplish this: The nearly six dozen female members of the incoming House of Representatives will have a new restroom just as close to the chamber’s floor as their male colleagues. A sometimes significant comfort, given legislators’ propensity to blather….Until now…
The current issue of Rhode Island Monthly has a one-page review of political blogs in the state, by Ellen Liberman, and Anchor Rising is right at the top of the page. The list isn’t alphabetical, but I’m still glad that we began with an A. I had a dinner meeting in Attleboro on Tuesday, and…
More incongruous rap wars. Here’s Hayek versus Keynes: I think if I were a teacher/professor at some level, I’d seriously consider writing rap wars to illustrate and summarize differences between characters, points of view, and so on. Yeah. I’d be that guy. ADDENDUM: A (very) little bit of digging turned up the video to which…
… minus the horses, of course, because, after all, bringing a horse to school is as dangerous as bringing a loaded firearm. Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School senior Dan Depaolis, 17, was suspended for two days after he rode a horse into the school’s parking lot while wearing medieval garb as part of a spirit week…
A year or two ago — Who can tell in the blur of time? — my usual blog skimming brought me across a recording of modern conservative forefather and writer of “ghostly stories” Russell Kirk reading his chilling “There’s a Long, Long Trail A-Winding.” I listened to the linked audio file while folding the laundry…
