Category Archives: Politics
How to Disagree with a Blog Post Reply
So we're still getting great numbers of page views at James MacDonald Preaches on Finances on Easter Sunday, and not a small number of comments, especially for this blog. Some of you haven't been back there since it appeared, but I later added an update to clarify some of the comments I got both on and off the blog:
We are eating ourselves to death! But, what can we do? 1
TODAY IN HISTORY, MAY 18 Reply
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It Takes a Smuggler to Satisfy KFC Cravings in Gaza Reply
Colonel Sanders would be proud. While the 74-year-old secret recipe for his fried chicken has remained firmly under wraps, cravings for his deep-fried deliciousness have become so widespread that an entrepreneur has begun smuggling KFC to customers in the Gaza Strip using secret underground tunnels. According to the New York Times, Khalil Efrangi, 31, runs a small shop in Gaza called Yamama that will deliver a 12-piece bucket of KFC for $27, about twice what it costs across the border in Egypt, where the food is prepared.
The Art of Peeping at Your Neighbors Reply
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There Goes the Neighborhood
While I occasionally spend a few hours standing on my front stoop scantily clad and in a suggestive pose hoping to gain a little notoriety on Google Maps Street View, I still expect a certain amount of privacy when my family (and several of my neighbors) say it's time to go back into the house. For some New Yorkers, that expectation of privacy in their own homes went right out (or at least through) the window with the debut of a new photography show at a Chelsea gallery.
Late Night Laughs: The 5 Best Comedy Clips of the Week Reply
Broken promises Reply
Rush Limbaugh promised to move to Costa Rica if Barack Obama were re-elected in 2012. He is still here
Michele Bachmann promised to leave Minnesota if the state of Minnesota approved gay marriage, They did and she is still a Minnesota Congressperson. If she does keep her promise, I hope that she will go north, rather than east, south or west.
Trains collide in Connecticut; dozens hurt Reply
Two Metro-North passenger trains heading in opposite directions collided during rush hour Friday evening, damaging both trains and leaving some "bloody" and wounded as a result, a witness and transit official said.
A train heading from New Haven to New York City derailed around 6:10 p.m., hitting the other train in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Metro-North spokeswoman Marjorie Anders said. That caused some cars on the second train, which was destined for New Haven, to likewise leave the tracks.
ELLA FITZGERALD – BLUE SKIES 1
YOU HAD A BUSY DAY. TAKE IT EASY.
