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Around Town...

I'm being lazy tonight. I just got home from work, I'm enjoying a glass of wine and surfing the net. Normally on Sunday nights I work on the Weekly Report but there was no real coherent theme so I'm just lounging about. I'll do it tomorrow morning. My Weekly Report should be up around Noon.

I'm doing a lot of spur-of-the-moment things tonight. Vermont Public Television is showing one of my favorite comedies tonight, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World starring just about everyone who was funny in the early sixties. I actually saw this in the movie theater and laughed my (at that time in 1963) 9-year-old ass off. This is one of few precious memories I have of going to the moviehouse as a kid.

Other flicks I saw included the strangest double-feature of The Great Escape with Steve McQueen paired with King Kong VS Godzilla. My older brother took me to see that dynamic duo. Four hours of pure pleasure for a kid like me!

So while I'm being lazy, here are some good reads around town...

Gunscribe at From The Heartland announces that a proposed bill in Nebraska would limit cellphone use while driving to emergencies only. Vermont has such a law on the interstates and while it is rarely enforced, the outside salesman for my company recently got a ticket because he actually pulled over and stopped in the breakdown lane to answer a call. A statie pulled over and actually gave him a ticket for doing that! He said that stopping on the highway was only for emergencies. The salesman thought he was doing the right thing by pulling over to answer a call. This cop was a total asshole. Most would have -- at most -- given a warning.

You know how weird I'm being tonight? I've dug-out some old Balsam Fir Incense and am stinking up my home with it...

Joe Huffman at the View From North Cental Idaho has several interesting posts up including reasons why he isn't a joiner.

Eric Scheie has low standards? I don't think so. His writing is brilliant. But this is all relating to the problems of Armstrong Williams taking money -- undisclosed, and there-in lies the problem -- to promote a White House initiative.

I have long admired gun engraving. So does Zendo Deb at TFS Magnum with an appreciation of Westley Richards.

Sean at The White Peril has more on my favorite author Agatha Christie in this post.

I love Angela Bowers and she thinks about the same things I do when having a few... Angela, all of your questions will be answered late at night....

Okay, I'm now going to cook-up a bunch of eggs and pig-out and sleep like a baby and tomorrow morning will get to work on the Weekly Report. See you soon...