All-Time Whipped Man, Plus A Fingernail Tragedy
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Friday, February 13, 2009 [part one]
No budget crisis: Berkeley's dog statues
Artist Scott Donahue earned his $196k because the city of Berkeley, Calif., thought it'd be nice to have statues at both ends of a pedestrian bridge over Interstate 80, and there they are: tributes to man's best friend. But the big monuments also contain little medallion-like thingies with scenes of dogs doing what dogs do, like chasing each other, pointing at birds, humping, and taking a dump. A reporter found a recently-laid-off worker, who was happy to comment on the gov't's priorities. Fox News
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Whipped big-time, right up to the end
John Klein, 82, was arrested in Spokane County, Wash., for manslaughter because he basically left his fallen wife, 73, on the floor of their home for 10 weeks, until she died. But, he insisted, that was because she growled at him every time he tried to help her and ordered him not to call the authorities. Yes, dear. So he brought her food and water, and he even, y'know, cleaned her . . for 10 weeks. KXLY-TV (Spokane)
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The Way The World Works: Merrill Lynch's bonuses
New York Attorney Gen'l Cuomo is the man right now trying to administer the most aggressive beatdowns of corporate high rollers, and first in his crosshairs is Merrill Lynch, which shamelessly paid $3,600,000,000 in bonuses for 2008 to reward its best and brightest for presiding over the company's 2008 $27,000,000,000 loss. But at least Merrill didn't give it all to the CEO and a few cronies; why, nearly 700 execs got bonuses of over $1M each. Cuomo said if the $3.6B had been spread equally among all Merrill workers, each would have gotten $91k. New York Times
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More Things to Worry About
A 39-yr-old man in New Zealand is no longer with us after grossly underestimating the seriousness of a stunt he thought up to frighten his girlfriend: shooting himself in the heart three times with a nail gun. Taranaki Daily News
Ms. Lee Redmond survived just fine the car crash in Salt Lake City Wednesday, but her Guinness-book-record, 33-inch-long fingernails didn't. Salt Lake Tribune [See the Weird Universe post that follows this!]
The chief justice of the highest court in the Indian capital of Delhi said, basically, if you're thinking of filing a lawsuit there today, you'll get to trial in, oh, somewhere around the year 2475 A.D. BBC News
The thief in Pompano Beach, Fla., got away from the Wal-Mart, a tribute to his aggressive, knife-wielding stance when security guards confronted him over that one $9 tube of foot cream he was shoplifting. South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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Your Daily Jury Duty
["In America, a person is presumed innocent until the mug shot is released"]
Matthew Selk, 22, Largo, Fla., was accused of punching his girlfriend's cat (but so far has not been duly charged with felony fashion crime). Tampa Tribune
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Friday, February 13, 2009 [part one]
No budget crisis: Berkeley's dog statues
Artist Scott Donahue earned his $196k because the city of Berkeley, Calif., thought it'd be nice to have statues at both ends of a pedestrian bridge over Interstate 80, and there they are: tributes to man's best friend. But the big monuments also contain little medallion-like thingies with scenes of dogs doing what dogs do, like chasing each other, pointing at birds, humping, and taking a dump. A reporter found a recently-laid-off worker, who was happy to comment on the gov't's priorities. Fox News
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Whipped big-time, right up to the end
John Klein, 82, was arrested in Spokane County, Wash., for manslaughter because he basically left his fallen wife, 73, on the floor of their home for 10 weeks, until she died. But, he insisted, that was because she growled at him every time he tried to help her and ordered him not to call the authorities. Yes, dear. So he brought her food and water, and he even, y'know, cleaned her . . for 10 weeks. KXLY-TV (Spokane)
Comments 'whipped_bigtime'
The Way The World Works: Merrill Lynch's bonuses
New York Attorney Gen'l Cuomo is the man right now trying to administer the most aggressive beatdowns of corporate high rollers, and first in his crosshairs is Merrill Lynch, which shamelessly paid $3,600,000,000 in bonuses for 2008 to reward its best and brightest for presiding over the company's 2008 $27,000,000,000 loss. But at least Merrill didn't give it all to the CEO and a few cronies; why, nearly 700 execs got bonuses of over $1M each. Cuomo said if the $3.6B had been spread equally among all Merrill workers, each would have gotten $91k. New York Times
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More Things to Worry About
A 39-yr-old man in New Zealand is no longer with us after grossly underestimating the seriousness of a stunt he thought up to frighten his girlfriend: shooting himself in the heart three times with a nail gun. Taranaki Daily News
Ms. Lee Redmond survived just fine the car crash in Salt Lake City Wednesday, but her Guinness-book-record, 33-inch-long fingernails didn't. Salt Lake Tribune [See the Weird Universe post that follows this!]
The chief justice of the highest court in the Indian capital of Delhi said, basically, if you're thinking of filing a lawsuit there today, you'll get to trial in, oh, somewhere around the year 2475 A.D. BBC News
The thief in Pompano Beach, Fla., got away from the Wal-Mart, a tribute to his aggressive, knife-wielding stance when security guards confronted him over that one $9 tube of foot cream he was shoplifting. South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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Your Daily Jury Duty
["In America, a person is presumed innocent until the mug shot is released"]
Matthew Selk, 22, Largo, Fla., was accused of punching his girlfriend's cat (but so far has not been duly charged with felony fashion crime). Tampa Tribune
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