Category: Odds But Not Ends
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Last week I reported the story of Glenn McDuffie, the Houston man who was recently identified as the sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square in the celebrated 1945 Life magazine photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt. The picture seen and recognized by millions, is an historical moment captured by a photographer’s lens, marking the end of…
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Two animal posts in a row – no it’s not going to be a pattern. Having written a harrowing and depressing story yesterday about cruelty to animals, I hope to cheer things up a bit with a heart warming and curious tale of peaceful animal-human co-existence. I have a favorite old Edward Gorey t-shirt. The…
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Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice in Wonderland would say. The Obama-Hillary feud has burst into new prominence, with much finger pointing going on at the Obama campaign for penning a couple of memos viciously bashing Hillary Clinton’s support of ‘outsourcing’. It started with this report about memos trashing the Clintons’ stock investments.: The Clinton Campaign…
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Eighteen year old Samantha Larson of Long Beach, California has climbed the highest seven mountain summits on all continents. On May 16th she reached the top of Mount Everest, making her the youngest American to have achieved this feat. During her Everest climb she packed her oboe along with her climbing gear so as to…
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Melamine has now been found in the feed given to farmed fish. There goes another part of the human food chain! Farmed fish have been fed meal spiked with the same chemical that has been linked to the pet food recall, but the contamination was probably too low to harm anyone who ate the fish,…
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Book loving artists twist, turn, slash and slice books to create art. (link via 3 Quarks Daily)
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A curious story (link: Sujatha) from the automotive section of Detroit News Online. Plug it in, fire it up, Mr. President The Detroit News Credit Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally with saving the leader of the free world from self-immolation. Mulally told journalists at the New York auto show that he intervened to prevent…
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A curious French connection for the weekend: Balthazar Napolean de Bourbon, a lawyer/farmer in Bhopal, India, has been identified as possibly being in line for the lost throne of the Bourbon royal family of France.He is not hugely interested in pressing his claim, though it may earn him a trip to Paris and a few…
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This story is tragic. It plays to the secret fear we all have of dying alone without anyone knowing. But that is not the reason why I am posting the story – not for the sad human angle of old age and loneliness. I don’t want to come across as heartless but what really caught my…
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Another little story from my neighborhood. Early last Thursday morning, just after midnight, my neighbors and I heard a distant boom. We didn’t know what to make of it and didn’t think much about it until next morning when the local news reported that a house, about 2 miles from my own, blew up. Blew…
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