Absolute Failure: Anarchy takes hold as Mariners lose to Sox, fall 20 games behind first, and begin to turn on each other.
Daniel Schorr: passes away. Am I the only one wondering if his death will make it onto Weekend Edition?
This Could Get Ugly: North Korea promises war and threatens nuclear deterrence in response to joint US-South Korean military exercises. List of North Korean promises made but not kept: 5.8 × 10^23 (approx).
Famous Last Oil Rigger Words: “Hey lets set the emergency alarm on silent so we can sleep more.”
How Not to Solve Budget Problems: State gives away island it paid $211,000 for.
Can’t be Blamed: Charlie Rangel entered talks to settle ethics accusations against him, but refused to admit any wrongdoing, crippling the talks.
The Recruiters Never Mentioned This: Veterans Affairs to allow use of medical marijuana in select states.
Dam Won’t Break: Senate approves $44 million emergency repairs for Howard Hanson Dam.
Not Mean Enough: Kenneth Feinberg releases his “boooring” report on bonuses at TARP banks.
The Grizzly from Hell: Colorado bear commandeers car, attempts to pick up females, run over hikers, and chase deer, but ultimately contents himself with eating the seats.
Bonus Points: For whoever can name the cartoonist who prophesized such an attempt in a single panel cartoon.
Re NoKo broken promises: Maybe we should rename Avogadro’s Number after Kim Jong-Il?
Gary Larson
That wasn’t a grizzly (we don’t have them in Colorado) – just your plain ol’ garden-variety black bear.
That was a black bear, not a grizzly, in the article.
Well, that’s what I get for following links and not rushing right in with “Gary Larson!”
But you didn’t say “first,” so I’ll take my bonus points to go, please, with extra napkins.
He was carried off to Valhalla by a weiner dog, a chicken, a snake, and a woman with pointed eyeglasses.
Probably Larson.
Another candidate was Phil Frank of “Farley” fame. He cartooned a whole series based on smart and charming bears in the Asphalt State Park and San Francisco (one of the bears was a Giant baseball nut).
I miss Phil every day. He was a wonderful guy.
(re alarm on oil rig)
“It was not a safety oversight or done as a matter of convenience,” the company said.
Okaaaaay…
Bench the whole team! These M’s are an embarrassment. Keep Ichiro and Felix and send the rest of those humps to the Aquasox, the manager too.
Does anyone listen to Kim Jong-Il anymore? What an ass.
“Kim Jong ill” would be a good name for a rap group.
Why is 5.8 x 10 ^23rd so familiar?
If you paid your interns, you might get someone who can read — the story SAID it was a black bear.
Today’s top local story:
“Girls arrested for attempting to urinate on flag pole | Kirkland Police Blotter”
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/east_king/ki…
Side note: Despite all the advances in cloud computing, it’s still impossibly hard to copy a quote and link into a textbox.
Think about that, geniuses!
@14: Maybe you’d like to volunteer to do the weekend news, so then we could all sit around and pick apart every little mistake you make.
@13 It reminded me of a mol – 6.02 * 10^23
all the bears i know attempt to pick up males. must be different in colorado.
On that budget problem issue, and giving away islands – the island went to a tribe for them to maintain and take care of with no change in public access. Somehow I fail to get riled up about that.
@17
Care to share the magic, Dexter?
But then it wouldn’t be magic.
(Do the a href= thingy and it works just fine.)
@14 – The bear did not pick up any females, run over hikers, or chase deer either. I sense a pattern.
@22
This is more what I was thinking:
Quote URL text will copy selected text to the clipboard including Page Title, Location and copy date.
Address :
24 cont’d
Of course it didn’t do a good job of quoting it’s own page!
So…the search continues…
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox…
Who is driving?
Oh my god, bear is driving! How can that be?
@ 20, completely agree. This is a very weak “problem solvers” piece, and anyone with a brain (and some sympathy for natives) is either let down or “outraged” in an unintended way by the time they get to the paragraph about who the recipient was. I imagine they need shocker headlines now and then to keep people reading, but I’m dismayed by the intern’s choice here. Strike one Weber!
@7: and a cow. Larson, always with the cows.
Who is driving? Oh no! Bear is driving! How can that be?
@29: How does a bear know what driving is?
http://nachodonut.files.wordpress.com/20…