With great power comes great responsibility
Everyone knows the Internet is a powerful thing. Through massive social networking sites, you can get a message to numerous people instantly. However, the Montgomery Animal Shelter closing story is an example of the fact that if you’re going to disseminate a message to the [...]
Let’s go, batter up
Spring and summer are time for baseball. It has been called “America’s pastime” for a reason. It is a look back to that riparian Eden of myth where we can play a game between the white lines that is bound by no definite amount of time. Only [...]
Ivory tower art comes to the people
I enjoy fine art for a variety of reasons. I can appreciate technique and an artist’s prodigious technical skill, but more than anything else, I want to be transported. I want to walk into a painting and live that moment for as long as [...]
Gun? Check. Baby? Check.
I guess this pair of robbers couldn’t get a baby-sitter. The most recent in a string of nationwide payday loan store robberies had an interesting twist.
The man who demanded money at the Texas payday loan store held a gun. The woman with him, his suspected accomplice, held [...]
Their six-shooters don’t go to seven
Monica Rhor reports for the Associated Press that Texas Governor Rick Perry has rejected a $555 million federal stimulus payment that would have expanded his state’s current unemployment benefits. The reason he gave for the rejection is that the money “would have required the state [...]