A sailor cleaning a deck gun who accidentally fired on the port of Gdynia in Poland, has been offered a commission as an admiral in the German navy; workers are still trying to repair the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge , from which two steel rods and a.
Topics: Cartoon Saturday

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I'll be heading to the airport in just a few minutes...just time enough to comment on how nice it is to leave Los Angeles. Well, not really. LA isn't such a bad place if you're used to hosed-up traffic and goofy people...and if you live in..
Topics: Family, Travel

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I thought California was supposed to be warm and sunny and full of beautiful blondes gliding around on in-line skates, chased by blonde beefcakes. There was a freeze warning last night, for pete's sake ... the beautiful blondes are all wearing...
Topics: General Curmudgeonliness, Travel

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I'm in Los Angeles this week, attending a conference during the day and visiting my son in the evenings. As you might expect, I have a few observations on visiting this amazing city, based on the accumulated experiences of a day and a half... 1. ...
Topics: Travel

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According to this morning's news, the official explanation of why a Northwest Airlines airliner overflew its intended destination by 150 miles is that the two pilots were both using personal laptop computers to try out new crew scheduling software....
Topics: I Couldn't Make This Stuff Up

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