Stay Strong, Seattle: “About 3,200 people said goodbye to the southern part of the Alaskan Way Viaduct on Saturday with a stroll along the top deck, even as heavy machines broke apart sections of the road a short distance away.”
People With Guns Kill People: A 20-year-old hiker was accidentally killed by a bear hunter in Oregon.
Man Attacked at Storage Facility: A man in his 80s died after being attacked with a sharp instrument at a storage facility in Interbay.
You Win, New Hampshire: The Nevada GOP moved it’s caucus from January 14th to February 4th.
That Can’t Be Good: Michelle Bachmann’s campaign staff in New Hampshire quit.
Thanks, 10th Circuit Court of Appeals: “A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a rule prohibiting roads on nearly 50 million acres of land in national forests across the United States, a ruling hailed by environmentalists as one of the most significant in decades.”
Yup, The FARC Is Still At It: The FARC ambushed and killed 10 Columbian Colombian soldiers for the second time in two days.
The Arab Spring: Where Are They Now? After kicking off the Arab Spring, Tunisia is holding elections for the first time in decades.
Watch Your Head: A German satellite has entered the atmosphere.
And now, a Sunday morning gift to you. Two of my favorite things: Elvis Costello and Elmo.
Fnarf ambushed soldiers..wait…what?
Ten million bucks says that the killer off the of the 80+ yr old man is black and that the victim is white.
It’s Colombian not “Columbian.”
My wife is from Colombia and this common American misspelling makes her crazy.
With an average of one every fifty miles, that ruling keeps a bunch of home appliances from resting in peace in our national forest system.
…..sure bums the hillbillys though.
Red two, a monster went and ate my red two
Red two, a monster went and ate my red two
Red two…
Guess what’ll be rolling around MY head all day!
Sorry to hear about Bachmann. I was hoping for a long and hilarious campaign. I’d hate to see her drop out too early.
Agree w/@6
I saw that Costello video and speculated on what if other bands got on the bandwagon and recorded letter or number versions of their songs. Radiohead could do “Fake Plastic 3s,” etc. Then someone sent me to this video, where a Billy Idol Muppet sings “Rebel L”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjbpuK_H2…
@3: Sheesh, you’d think they’d at least know how to spell the name of their own country.
@3 WHAT??? There are Americans who are ignorant of geography???
pass the smelling salts… I feel faint… this can’t possibly be true….
@10
Perhaps they come from the Hermann Cain school of Geographic Knowledge.
Americans are stupid about geography?!?!? Clearly we need to cut education funding and funding for tests that tell us we can’t find anything on a map.