More Things to Worry About
Montana apparently has no Recession worries, seein' as how the Senate last week had time to hold a hearing on naming the whole-wheat huckleberry variety the
official state pancake.
Billings Gazette
Unclear on the Concept: A bomb threat forced evacuation of all 1,850 students from a high school in Buda, Tex., . . well,
all except the 8 special-needs kids, who had to stay put. (Bonus: The principal said she left 'em in place out of "compassion," because it was cold outside.)
KXAN-TV (Austin)
The 9-yr-old in Oregon, Wis., was blocking his dad's view of the TV and wouldn't move out of the way, so dad
shot him in the ass with a BB gun, and dad was arrested (but . . the kid got out of the way).
Capital Times (Madison)
Karma-get-him: Nicholas Hernandez, 25, awaiting trial in a Houston, Tex., DUI-crash case in which his passenger died, was killed in a crash Thursday while a passenger in a car driven by a drunk pal.
Houston Chronicle
19 schoolteachers were identified as poor performers by their pupils' test scores and so were taken out and
beaten with the cane, which is, alas, apparently improper in Tanzania.
BBC News
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