Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Yeah, that’s not good. Girlfriend murmured something about this to me as she came to bed last night.
A shoplifter at a Walmart store in Folsom stabbed a manager as he tried to take back the stolen merchandise, police said.
The scuffle took place Thursday afternoon at the store on the 1000 block of Riley Street.
Folsom police said the attacker ran across Glenn Drive and onto a bike trail.
The manager walked across the street to Folsom Fire Station 35, where he was treated and eventually transported with unknown injuries.
Folsom police officers were searching a landscaped area near the main entrance to the store Thursday evening.
The attacker is wanted for robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and other charges, police said.
Yeah I know, it’s Walmart where all the riff raff hang out. Nothing to see here.
That really isn’t the situation at all. I know this piece of space well. It’s 3.7 miles from my front door by bike, across the street from our local post office. Wally-World and the fire station form a sort of archway dividing a thriving business district from an upscale residential full of houses we’ve seriously prospected at one time or another. A hundred yards around the corner is the park where we took my son when he was a toddler, and across from that, the other park where I taught him to catch a ball.
No neighborhood deserves to be terrorized, of course. But at the same time it’s a real sock in the gut seeing a community like Wholesome-Folsom, which has worked so hard throughout so many years to be among the very best places you can think about raising kids, get all stabby.
Glad to see the manager went and sought medical assistance on his own. We drifted off to sleep hearing that he’d been “stabbed repeatedly” and not knowing what to think about that.
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Morgan, I just happened to be in Folsom this afternoon. Spent a nice few hours hiking the paved trail, thought I had to take it back toward Nimbus Dam since the one going ’round the lakeshore is closed amidst all the heavy construction going on out there at the moment.
Afterward, I stood on the shore there in the day-use area, looked at the houses on the far side, and said to my girlfriend, “One of my favorite bloggers lives around here. I wonder where his house is.”
Shame about that manager. Before hearing the story, I said, “The guy probably wanted a refund and the manager wouldn’t give it to him.” Now it sounds more like the perpetrator was simply trying to escape with stolen goods, and this fellow got in the way. I’m sure he never expected to be assaulted while working for a store that size. This is more the stuff of late-night 7-11 clerks.
- cylarz | 05/21/2010 @ 23:26