At 11:11 a.m. (EST) on 11/11/11, Las Vegas set a new Guinness World Record: the largest pair of fuzzy dice ever built – the total dots on the face numbering a-you-guessed-it 11. Vegas is nothing if not a strip of indescribable scale, scope, stimulation and over-the-top, literally larger-than-life extravagance. Perhaps for these reasons Nevada ranked first in America […]
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Letter: Don’t Shoot
Two men. Two separate but recent incidents. One of the men is dead, the other alive. The dead one held a cap pistol. The living held a knife. Both were surrounded and outnumbered by far more heavily armed law enforcement. One was outlined in chalk. The other is still being sought. Their respective stories are linked above.
Letter: Why Character Matters
As important as are credentials character matters more. Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain wrote, “We know not the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour strikes.”
Letter: “And the Home for the Gay”
By David Anderson No, the original – nor any – version of The Star-Spangled Banner, also known as the national anthem of the United States, did not – and had not until Lady Gaga changed it – end that way. Until this past Friday night.
Letter: Poop Pummeling Perusal Pries a Pretty Penny
By David Anderson $592,527 to be exact. It is unknown what the balance of the $600,000 grant was used for but it at first seems a bit pricey to use this – or any – amount of taxpayer money to study why chimps throw poop.
Letter: Upon Further Review
By David Anderson “There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.” – Archibald MacLeish, American Poet and Critic (1892-1982) Now that Camp Murray has got the gate they wanted and Tillicum residents are fed with anecdotal traffic counts and fed up with city hall, what […]
Letter: Welcome – There, I Said It
By David Anderson Now, Mr. John Caulfield, let’s talk about what you are reported to have said in your ‘hire-me-as-your-new-city-manager’ speech. According to former City Councilmember Walter Neary’s blog, when you and the other candidates were asked about what mistakes they’d made in their career you “chose the most painful example, where (you) could have done better […]
Letter: Neary, Not-nearly, Represented Our Community
By David Anderson Former Lakewood City Councilman Walter Neary promised an explanation of what happened to Tillicum such that it “endured one of the most bitter neighborhood debates in (Neary’s) recent memory.” The “debate” concerned Camp Murray’s encroachment upon the neighborhood’s interior streets with hundreds of cars traversing the town no thanks to the relocation of […]
Letter: Murray-Gate Investigation Renewed
By David Anderson Turns out not only Tillicum was kept in the dark.