Whan that Aprill, with his shoures sooteThe droghte of March hath perced to the rooteAnd bathed every veyne in swich licour,Of which vertu engendred is the flour;Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breethInspired hath in every holt and heethThe tendre croppes, and the yonge sonneHath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,And smale foweles maken melodye,(That slepen al the nyght with open eye)So priketh hem Nature in hir coragesThanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
Fisherman Arrested In Sea Lion Shooting Posted: 2 days ago by drogue
Larry Legans, 43, faces misdemeanor charges of animal cruelty and negligent discharge of a firearm after a fisherman spotted him shooting a sea lion in the Sacramento River near Verona, officials said.
<-- Not the same sea lion.
Video here.
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Two Are Charged With Helping Madoff Falsify Records Posted: 2 weeks ago by drogue
They also closed their own Madoff accounts at that time and withdrew hundreds of thousands of dollars each, prosecutors said. The two men, who started to work for Mr. Madoff in the early 1990s, left in December 2008, according to the S.E.C. complaint.
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Fla. man arrested for calling 911, asking for sex Posted: 2 weeks ago by drogue
Florida police say a man arrested for repeatedly calling 911 looking for sex claimed it was the only number he could dial after running out of cell phone minutes.
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‘Crazy’ rapist 'Anthony Wayne Soeell' arrested after cops find 6 bodies Posted: 3 weeks ago by drogue
Four years after Anthony Sowell was released from a U.S. prison after serving 15 years for a rape conviction, police found six decomposing bodies at his Ohio home.
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San Jose police officers caught on video using baton, Taser gun on suspect Posted: 1 month ago by drogue
Phuong Ho, 20, was arrested in September for resisting arrest and brandishing a weapon after San Jose police responded to a disturbance call at his home. Officers repeatedly used batons and a Taser gun as they took into custody Ho, who had put down the steak knife before they arrived. Their actions are under investigation.
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What Clown on a Unicycle? Studying Cellphone Distraction Posted: 1 month ago by drogue
“I was trying to think about what kind of distraction we could put out there, and I talked to this student who had a unicycle...He said, ‘What’s more, I own a clown suit.’ You don’t have a student who unicycles in a clown suit every day, so you have to take advantage of these things.”
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Musicians protest the volume on Gitmo debate Posted: 1 month ago by drogue
"The coalition, which counts Pearl Jam, R.E.M., and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails...is joining a new campaign...."
"Maj. Diana Haynie, a spokeswoman for Joint Task Force Guantanamo, said loud music has not been used with detainees since the fall of 2003."
Which is coincidentally, a date that also corresponds with the year people stopped giving a shit about the previously-listed bands.
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Yosemite Bears Prefer Minivans for Snack Attacks Posted: 1 month ago by drogue
But why minivans? Why not full-sized vans or perhaps the station wagon? According to the article, the Yosemite foragers are smarter than the average bear.
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Couple ‘dumbfounded’ by marriage denial Posted: 1 month ago by drogue
Louisiana’s governor and a U.S. senator joined Friday in calling for the ouster of a local official who refused to marry an interracial couple, saying his actions clearly broke the law.
Update to this.
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Simmons (mattresses) goes belly up Posted: 2 months ago by drogue
"For many of the company’s investors, the sale will be a disaster. Its bondholders alone stand to lose more than $575 million." Yet...
"The investment firm...THL collected hundreds of millions of dollars from the company in the form of special dividends. It also paid itself millions more in fees, first for buying the company, then for helping run it."
Update to this (not posted here, so far as I know).
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 152 [+].
A town’s love of Indian artifacts backfires Posted: 2 months ago by drogue
Here, in one of the country's richest archaeological regions — where the ruins of ancient pueblos are tucked into towering sandstone cliffs and "pot-hunting" has been a way of life for more than a century, how should the past be protected and preserved? And who, if anyone, owns that past?
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U.S. Review of Battle Disaster Sways Strategy on Afghanistan Posted: 2 months ago by drogue
The paratroopers of Chosen Company had plenty to worry about as they began digging in at their new outpost on the fringe of a hostile frontier village in eastern Afghanistan...A few days later, they were almost overrun by 200 insurgents.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 81 [+].
Oldest "Human" Skeleton Found Posted: 2 months ago by drogue
Scientists today announced the discovery of the oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor. The find reveals that our forebears underwent a previously unknown stage of evolution more than a million years before Lucy, the iconic early human ancestor specimen that walked the Earth 3.2 million years ago.
Comments: 11 Score: [-] 437 [+].
Sex offenders in the woods Posted: 2 months ago by drogue
A small group of homeless sex offenders have set up camp in densely wooded area behind a suburban Atlanta office park, directed there by probation officers who say it's a place of last resort for those with nowhere else to go.
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Sharon Tate's murderer dies Posted: 2 months ago by drogue
Susan Atkins, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson whose remorseless witness stand confession to killing pregnant actress Sharon Tate in 1969 shocked the world, has died. She was 61 and had been suffering from brain cancer.
Update to this.
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Smoking bans reduce heart attacks by a third Posted: 2 months ago by drogue
This study adds to the already strong evidence that secondhand smoke causes heart attacks, and that passing 100 percent smoke-free laws in all workplaces and public places is something we can do to protect the public....
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Man accused of flinging jellyfish on beachgoers Posted: 3 months ago by drogue
According to a sheriff's office report, Keith Edward Marriott caused "concern for his safety" when he repeatedly submerged himself and floated back to the top of the water and he was also "loud and disruptive."
He then started throwing the sea creatures.
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Open Mic Picks Up Lawmaker's 'Spanking' Stories Posted: 3 months ago by drogue
[The] Orange County Republican was bragging to a colleague seated to his left about his sexual encounters with two lobbyists, according to a report broadcast on KCAL. Duvall apparently did not realize the audio was picked up by the Legislature's in-house channel on the mic positioned in front of him.
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AngryTownHall.com: The Revolution Will Not Be Extinguished (satire) Posted: 3 months ago by drogue
Ensuring the elimination of America’s SOCIALIST fire departments.
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Apology over China lead poisoning Posted: 3 months ago by drogue
China's pollution and lax product safety standards have long been a source of tension and unrest, particularly when residents of pollution hotspots - dubbed "cancer villages" because of high disease rates - feel they are being ignored.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 136 [+].
Letters to John Hughes Posted: 4 months ago by drogue
A British comedy friend sent this to me yesterday over Twitter. Update to this.
Yes, it's a blog, but it's heartwarming and apropos.
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 226 [+].
Penalty for panhandlers ‘beggars belief’ Posted: 4 months ago by drogue
Some say $108 penalty could increase need for begging in Australian town.
"Even if they can find the money to meet the fine, it means they're going to be less well off the next fortnight (two weeks) and probably more likely to beg again," Pilbrow said.
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7 North Carolina men charged as international "jihad" group Posted: 4 months ago by drogue
In 1991, Boyd and his brother were convicted of bank robbery in Pakistan. They were also accused of carrying identification showing they belonged to the radical Afghan guerrilla group, Hezb-e-Islami, or Party of Islam. Each was sentenced to have a foot and a hand cut off for the robbery, but the decision was later overturned.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 91 [+].
Mysterious ancient altar found in Roman fort Posted: 4 months ago by drogue
"What should have been part of the rampart mound near to the north gate of the fort has turned out to be an amazing religious shrine," said archaeologist Andrew Birley.
Romans called this god Jupiter Dolichenus, but it was originally an ancient weather god, known to the Semitic peoples of the Middle East as Hadad and to the Hittites as Teshab.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 233 [+].
Houston brothers charged with Cop-killings may represent selves Posted: 4 months ago by drogue
"I think both of you have made a tragic decision here," the judge said. "But that is your decision. I just want you to know what you're doing."
"We've got the best counsel in the world," Leon Houston said. "We've got God on our side."
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