Slog

News & Arts

Line Out

Music & the City
at Night

« Thieves Steal Food in Rainier Valle… | A Gorilla Names Its Baby »

Thursday, November 19, 2009

News The Morning News: The Bank of Virgin Mary, Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year, and Meat Without Animals

Posted by Megan Seling on Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:08 AM

Afghanistan Gets a New President: Hamid Karzai was sworn in on Thursday, "after a fraud-marred election left his image in ruins."

You're Winning (Sort Of): A New York court rejected a Christian legal group's challenge to government benefits provided to same-sex couples legally married and now living in New York. But the court avoided declaring that same-sex couples are entitled to all the rights of other married couples.

PETA's Probably Stoked!: Scientists are growing meat without animals.

Save the Boobs: The Obama administration is saying government insurance programs will continue to cover routine mammograms for women starting at age 40.

Come (Try to) Fly With Me: The FAA computer program that caused flight cancellations and delays across the country has been resolved.

Welcome to the Neighborhood: Seattle schools have returned to a neighborhood-based system and set new boundaries for most school.

Don't Tase Her, Bro!: An Arkansas cop is suspended after using a taser on a 10-year-old girl.

The Feds Might Have to Pay a Lot of Money: A judge has ruled that Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to the massive flooding during Hurricane Katrina.

Why Get a Safe Deposit Box When You've Got the Virgin Mary!: A woman left $40,000 worth of rare coins near a Catholic shrine for safekeeping "so the Virgin Mary could watch over her life savings while she was out of town."

Admonish!: It is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year.

This Could Get Ugly: "Irish football officials have lodged an official complaint with world ruling body FIFA after Thierry Henry confessed that he handled the ball in the build-up to the goal which sent France to next summer's World Cup."

Look Both Ways: A man was killed on I-5 after running into traffic, trying to escape police.

Speaking of getting tasered, one kid supposedly got tasered in this protest outside UCLA, regarding the recent 32% tuition hike:

Comments (15) RSS

Oldest First Unregistered On Registered On Add a comment

Your link for the 10 year old taser story is same as for the Katrina story.

Posted by No, seriously, what happened? on November 19, 2009 at 8:31 AM

@1 Thanks for catching that, I fixed it.

Posted by Megan Seling on November 19, 2009 at 8:36 AM

Forced busing is finally buried for good in Seattle. My god, it took you morons 30 yrs to figure out you were ruining SPS schools.

Free at last, free at last, thank god almighty, free at last.

Go Beavers.

Posted by Ballard Man on November 19, 2009 at 8:53 AM

That story is ten years old??????? Way to be up on the itranets, dude!

Posted by Keekee on November 19, 2009 at 8:55 AM

Why the Virgin Mary? Everyone knows Jesus saves. He even has spectacular interest rates.

Posted by Baconcat on November 19, 2009 at 8:56 AM

Using a taser to push someone back from a blockade? Really? Was that student a threat and needed to be subdued or were you just trying to hurt him?

Oh btw, a couple days ago a friend of mine died by taser.

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/i…

Posted by kersy on November 19, 2009 at 8:56 AM

I think we should admonish Merriam-Webster for jumping the gun, because the word of the year or at least, misused word of the year has gotta be rogue: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionar…

now going rouge, a drag queen odyssey, that sounds cool.

Posted by pissy mcslogbot on November 19, 2009 at 8:56 AM

If a woman never had intercourse and got pregnant with a turkey baster, would she still be a virgin?

Posted by Vince on November 19, 2009 at 9:02 AM

If'n you were an X-Men fan, you would know how to spell rogue properly!

Posted by Keekee on November 19, 2009 at 9:03 AM

huh, wha ? rogue was a drag queen? okay, I thought maybe storm, and for sure cyclops... hmmm cool.

Posted by pissy mcslogbot on November 19, 2009 at 9:18 AM

#8 - Yes. But only until the baby is born. Unless its a C-section. then yes again.

Posted by subwlf on November 19, 2009 at 10:02 AM

In 1989-90, UCLA tuition was less than $1000 a year. Now it's almost $9000. An 800% increase in 20 years is a travesty. At least there's always the military...

Posted by DOUG.

on November 19, 2009 at 10:08 AM

Speaking as a participant of plenty of protests, if you push the police, guess what? They will push back. Why is this considered some kind of outrage? It's expected and frankly what should happen.

Learn how to protest so the publicity goes to your cause and not YOU.

Posted by hartiepie on November 19, 2009 at 10:11 AM

If we can grow meat (which was a lead story yesterday as well), does that mean we don't have to tase 10 year old girls?

Posted by Will in Seattle

on November 19, 2009 at 10:18 AM

I think it's the mom who needs to be suspended. Her kid wouldn't take a shower, so she called the cops and said "tase her if you have to"? What the hell was that?

Posted by rhymeswithlibrarian on November 19, 2009 at 11:13 AM