Ross Myers

I caught this announcement recently over the loud speaker at the Las Vegas airport mixed amongst plane arrivals, departures, warnings of look out for suspicious activity and don’t watch bags for strangers.

"The gentleman that left his false teeth and hearing aids in the Mens restroom can claim them at the main desk………………… that’s if you can hear this"

My son Edward started his first blog when he was 5 years old.

My duaghter Josie is chomping at the bit to get hers started. 

"The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself." - Plato

I recently stumbled upon this intriguing quote in the short story American Cannibal from Uncle John’s 14th Edition Bathroom Reader.

 " Alferd G. Packer, you no good sonofabitch, there wasn’t but seven Democracts in Hinsdale County, and you done et five of ‘um," he thundered. "your gonna hang by the neck until dead."

This statement had been purportedly made by the sentencing judge to the defendant upon being found guilty of the heinous crime of cannibalism in Lake City, Colorado in 1884.

A little research showed that the judges words had most likely become twisted into "rural legend" around the pickle barrels of the of old west.

Google Faces Freedom Callenges in United States of America

Google Faces "Guge" Censorship Challenge in China

Face-off here

"The original was Skonk Works (skonk is a dialect variant of skunk), the place of unexplained function near which Lonesome Polecat and Hairless Joe brewed their highly illicit bootleg Kickapoo Joy Juice from ingredients such as old shoes and dead skunks.

Lonesome Polecat & Hairless Joe: They make Kickapoo Joy Juice- if it needs more body, they throw one in! 

As a generic term, it dates from the 1960s. One definition is very much that of the original and the one you describe: a small group of experts who drop out of the mainstream of a company’s operations in order to develop some experimental technology or new application in secrecy or at speed, unhampered by bureaucracy or the strict application of regulations (Kelly Johnson formulated 14 visionary rules for running such an operation, which are still regarded as valid even now). It is also sometimes used for a similar group that operates semi-illicitly, without top-level official knowledge or support, though usually with the tacit approval of immediate management."

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Abd al-Rahman, Age 13

“I am looking at the sheep in the wadi [riverbed, or oasis]. I see Janjaweed coming—quickly, on horses and camels, with Kalashnikovs—shooting and yelling, ‘kill the slaves, kill the blacks.’ They killed many of the men with the animals. I saw people falling on the ground and bleeding. They chased after children. Some of us were taken, some we didn’t see again. All our animals were taken: camels, cows, sheep, and goats. Then the planes came and bombed the village.”