WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. — A 62-year-old Florida man depended on his instincts when a bobcat attacked him, and it paid off — he survived, the bobcat didn’t.
The kicker: it attacked because it had rabies.
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A mass grave believed to contain the remains of thousands of Jews killed by the Nazis has been found in southern Ukraine. The good news here is that the story came out at all, because Ukraine is an independent country where Jews are not oppressed. This story might never have been made public in the old Soviet Union. What atrocities will be dug up sixty-six years from today? Technorati Tags: Babi Yar, glasnost Democracy stuns Polish coma man – CNN.com WARSAW, Poland (Reuters) — A 65-year-old railwayman who fell into a coma following an accident in communist Poland regained consciousness 19 years later to find democracy and a market economy, Polish media reported on Saturday. Thank God for Ronald Reagan. Technorati Tags: Poland, Berlin Wall TB Patient: ‘I Hope They Forgive Me’ – washingtonpost.com The inspector ran Speaker’s passport through a computer, and a warning _ including instructions to hold the traveler, don a protective mask in dealing with him, and telephone health authorities _ popped up, officials said. About a minute later, Speaker was instead cleared to continue on his journey, according to officials familiar with the records. The inspector has since been removed from border duty. Well, this is encouraging…. top-notch border inspectors on the job! And BTW, no, we don’t forgive you. If I had my way, you would be disbarred. See Georgia State Bar Rule 4-108, Conduct Constituting Threat of Harm to Clients or Public; Emergency Suspension.
Make contact with the State Bar of Georgia. Technorati Tags: Andrew Speaker, TB  Random House | Books | Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris ABOUT THIS BOOK All the people who are getting exercised about the Simon & Schuster POD rights controversy would do better to direct their attention in this direction. To my mind, the popularity of books like this, that simply glorify evil, is a far more serious problem than a trifling Kabuki play about eminently negotiable rights. Technorati Tags: Simon & Schuster, reversion, POD, Hannibal Rising, Thomas Harris It could be a chilly Father’s Day for Oprah Winfrey ’s dad. OK, Vern: you’re the dad. No matter how famous she gets, it’s your job to protect your daughter. Technorati Tags: Oprah, Father’s Day Plume Gets Virginia Tech Account – 4/30/2007 – Publishers Weekly n one of the first deals related to the Virginia Tech shootings, Plume’s Cherise Davis has bought world rights to Roland Lazenby’s April 16: Heartbreak in Blacksburg from agent Matthew Carnicelli. Lazenby, a journalism professor at Virginia Tech, will use the perspective of students on campus, in particular his own journalism students who helped supply the mainstream media with information via their student-run Web site planetblacksburg.com, to provide context for the events and describe the recovery and resilience of the campus community. Three of Lazenby’s students will coauthor the book and a portion of the proceeds will be given to the victims’ fund at Virginia Tech and to support journalism education at the university. Plume will publish this summer.
Too early, prof. Smells bad. I actually have some unique perspective to add here, as I am already familiar with Lazenby’s work: I collect books about basketball and Lazenby is the author of several rather pedestrian ones. He’s not likely to come up with a deeply insightful book about the VT shootings. Technorati Tags: Virginia Tech, hokies, Roland Lazenby, bad taste Petition to: recommend Terry Pratchet for a Knighthood for his services to literature. We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to recommend Terry Pratchet for a Knighthood for his services to literature Technorati Tags: Terry Pratchett, Discworld A Place to Turn When a Newborn Is Fated to Die – New York Times Most couples choose to have an abortion when they learn that the fetus has a fatal condition. But experts say about 20 to 40 percent of families given such diagnoses opt to carry the pregnancy to term, and an increasing number of them, like the Kilibardas, have turned to programs called perinatal hospice for help with the practical and spiritual questions that arise. The article is accompanied by an extremely touching photo of a woman feeding her severely ill baby.
Parents, children, and caregivers, all heroes. This is respect for life. I had two twin brothers who died the day they were born. I will be 46 Sunday; they would have been 42 or 43. There was no perinatal hospice for them. I wish there had been. The World of Business : The Kona Files: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker Two former police officers who worked for Hewlett-Packard security, Fred Adler and Vince Nye, questioned the legality of the method, according to notes of a later interview with Hunsaker. Nye, after learning that investigators had discovered Kawamoto’s call to Keyworth, e-mailed Hunsaker, “I have serious reservations about what we are doing… . It is very unethical at the least and probably illegal… . I am requesting that we cease this phone number gathering method immediately.” A hero in the ugly HP scandal. |
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