The Alexandria Day School, where tuition is about $15,000 a year, accidently served margaritas to its students at lunch. The school had to issue an apology to parents.
I don't see what the big deal is -- if you're charging fifteen grand to teach multiplication tables to 8-year-olds, I think the kids should drink for free.
The Muslim formerly known as Cat Stevens was deported from the US because of potential links to terrorists. -link via Drudge
My older brother used to listen to his hippy crap. I always hated it with a burning passion. Even thinking about "Peace Train" makes me want to staple myself to a burning building so I might have something else to think about. I suppose I hate so much even to this day because a lot of modern liturgical music sounds like his banal style. Even the memory of Stevens singing "Morning Has Broken" gives me the urge to kill puppies and kittens. Yeah, it's that bad. Maybe I need therapy - music therapy even. I'm going to listen to "The Dream of Gerontius" three times between now and dinner.
I heard today's vocabulary word from a pundit on Fox News; I hope you enjoy it too.
A couple of weeks ago, some former CBS exec derided bloggers who criticized that network's journalistic failings as a bunch of guys sitting at home in their pajamas, typing mere opinions -- definitely not worthy of the Tiffany Network's attention.
Today CBS acknowledged that the documents in the Rathergate case were indeed forgeries, and that they shouldn't have run the story. The PJ-clad warriors of the net turned out to be some competent fact-checking ninjas.
Photos of this year's "battle of the tomatoes", the "tomatina", held in the town of Bunol near Valencia. I'll summarize:
Over 40,000 people attended the annual event in which about 100,000 kilos of tomatoes were thrown. Not a single visitor or wall remained dry as the city was drenched in a reddish broth.
The origin of the annual spectacle is a matter of speculation: one story tells that during the famine of 1944, a political argument between two families turned into a tomato fight. Others claim that during the '50s some youths made fun of a street musician and threw vegetables at him. According to that tale, the musician was prompt to strike back.
The spectacle, which takes place on the last Wednesday in August, has become an international attraction since 1970.
Cremated Man Unexpectedly Tries Skydiving
Vreeland was in the kitchen of her Forest Grove, Ore. home when she heard a loud crash from the roof. It turns out that ashes of a 46-year-old man, who died of natural causes, had fallen out of a small plane and into Vreelan’s house.
