In Libya: In Misrata, rebels reclaimed control of the city’s tallest buildings from Gaddafi-backed snipers.
In Syria: 81 people were killed by government forces yesterday, when they left their homes for prayer.
In Bahrain: More than thirty medical workers have gone missing.
In Missouri: A tornado caused significant damage to the Saint Louis airport last night, shutting it down indefinitely.
Today, in bad news for the west coast: Scientists are now investigating the high seismic activity and frequent earthquakes along the Ring of Fire in the Pacific Ocean.
The wrong rivets: The cause of the hole that ripped open in the Southwest Airlines 737 during a flight on April 1.
What a tangled web we weave! Jon Kyl’s statement that abortions are “well over 90 percent” of what Planned Parenthood does—the one that he said was “not intended to be a factual statement” has been stricken from the Congressional record.
Celebrating Earth Day by shredding documents: The CIA, who are proud to do their part in the fight against transparency global warming.
Today, in rewarding poor life choices: Lindsay Lohan went to jail yesterday, but only for five hours.
Finally, since that was depressing: Here is some necessary levity—Marines lipsynching to Britney Spears’s masterpiece of subtlety, “Hold It Against Me.” Good morning!
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And don’t forget that the first “unofficial” Denver Slog Happy Hour will be a week from today. Saturday, April 30th at noon at the Satire Lounge, 1920 East Colfax Avenue on the real Capitol Hill. Be there or be square.
That video … World Famous Vipers!
I’m sure the Taliban loves that vid.
Denver slog happy!!
Sweet…
Hey, we never heard about the unofficial Slog Happy with Lissa and others, how did it go?
That’s a cute video…like the hill dancing at 1:18.
Have fun 5280…
Hi Canuck! It was wonderful! There were about 12 of us there, No rain, good drinks, good food. MacCrocodile told a hilarious story that I’ve been retelling all week. And I actually remembered my camera this time! Fun was had.
@1 so it’s you and matt and who else?
Oh mr. herriman, great news! I’m so glad you guys had fun! I’m sure it was memorable…
@7, I’d like to get down for SlogDenverHappy but I have a thing Saturday morning. So I’m maybe 30%, depending on if I can mess with my schedule. I don’t read every single comment thread on SLOG, cause I’m a slogslacker, so if slog denverites end up discussing the event on some other thread, someone might come back to this thread and point me to the that thread. I’ll check in here in a few day, or, since 5280 is just the instigator, I can go look up his comments.
catballou – somebody tell catballou about the Denver munch. I want a report on her meet-up with 5280. Hot.
I mean happy hour, not munch, of course. Getting my scenes mixed up.
@11 I was gonna say….no wonder those Slog happies are so popular… 😉
Has there ever been an unofficial SLOG Happy? I know I’m not the only SLOGger in the Windy City.
Just start a FB event and email Megan, that’s all we did, venomlash.
@14: OK. I’m glad you were able to decipher what I wrote without the word “Chicago”.
NP, context clues are my bitch.
@15, kinda screwed up your landing there, dear.
I will definitely be at the unofficial/official SLOG happy in Denver next Saturday!
@1,7,9, 18 etc. Doubt anyone’s still reading this thread, but, I’ve gotta punt on unofficial mile-high slappy hour tomorrow. I hope to match faces to handles some other time.
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