More Things to Worry About on Wednesday
Oops! A respected German science journal, trying to illustrate the beauty of a touching poem in
Chinese calligraphy, failed to appreciate the "deeper meaning" that certain characters have (depending on intonation), with the result of some free publicity for a Macau strip club.
The Independent (London)
Taking the concept of driving with an
"open container" to a new level (like, an open keg in the passenger seat).
Dayton Daily News
The best reasoning Vincent Kenny III could produce, when arrested for longtime sexual abuse of a runaway teenager he had befriended (according to a detective): "The defendant said [the boy] had to learn [masturbation] at home because the
schools don't teach it." The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
A roundup of explanations why
Chuck E. Cheese joints seem to have more barroom brawls than do redneck watering holes: parents' beer-drinking, kids' monopolizing the coolest video games, parents' readiness to defend their boisterous urchins ("mama bear" syndrome).
Wall Street Journal
Faculty at Spirit Creek Middle School in Augusta, Ga., were so busy having sex with each other that they didn't even have time to develop affairs with kids.
WRDW-TV (Augusta)
Today's Newsrangers: Karl Olson, Gary Delaney, Sandy Pearlman, Emory Kimbrough, Bob Adams
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