I saw this editorial from the Caledonian Record (VT) and thought I would post it...pretty funny and sad at the same time. Read and comment (which are your favorites?)
My favorites:
Whoa...talk about running 'to beat the band.' These folks need to get a life if the best thing they can do is to hord a new mall...but living in a small town I can understand how things can get out of hand :blink: :lol:
Simply bizarre. I don't know what to say.
Another weird one! :lol: Common Sense anyone?
News of the weird I guess...
The Caledonian Record said:Human beings are arguably the highest form of life on earth and capable of the most noble behavior. That may be so, but we are also capable of the most absurd, sometimes comedic and sometimes tragic, behavior. Newspapers are the unvarnished chronicles of modern life. Here is a quick scan of the absurdities of one weekend as they appear in an urban newspaper.
The Louisiana Legislature, which is asking for a $2 billion federal bailout from Hurricane Katrina's damage, approved a $45 million expenditure for sports and livestock facilities. Among funded activities are horse, dog, goat and art shows; rodeos and auctions; crawfish festivals; lawnmower races; and religious functions.
Actors Warren Beatty and his wife Annette Bening got the door literally slammed in their faces when they tried to crash and disrupt Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's private campaign party. They don't like his policies, and Beatty is testing the political waters for a possible run of his own. All that was missing were cameras and a director to make this collision of pretenders-by-profession a movie.
One hundred and nineteen Congressmen actually voted against the Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act, a bill that disallows lawsuits against food purveyors for causing obesity in overeaters.
Nearly 3,000 people stampeded a mall reopening in Nebraska when the high school band leading them in didn't get out of the way in time. A sizable number of band members and customers were hurt.
A North Dakota man spent two days in jail for having an unlicensed cat.
An Ohio woman pleaded not guilty to failing to pay $1.16 in income taxes. She faces fines of $4,000 and 18 months in jail if convicted.
News briefs reported six murders in the county over the weekend, four of them shootings and two by "severe upper body trauma." The news articles reporting the murders averaged 75 words each.
And rioting, largely Muslim youth burned 1,300 cars in and around Paris over a period of 36 weekend hours.
Sometimes when we read of the peccadilloes of human beings, we have to laugh or we would cry.
My favorites:
Nearly 3,000 people stampeded a mall reopening in Nebraska when the high school band leading them in didn't get out of the way in time. A sizable number of band members and customers were hurt.
Whoa...talk about running 'to beat the band.' These folks need to get a life if the best thing they can do is to hord a new mall...but living in a small town I can understand how things can get out of hand :blink: :lol:
A North Dakota man spent two days in jail for having an unlicensed cat.
Simply bizarre. I don't know what to say.
An Ohio woman pleaded not guilty to failing to pay $1.16 in income taxes. She faces fines of $4,000 and 18 months in jail if convicted.
Another weird one! :lol: Common Sense anyone?
News of the weird I guess...