[This was a pre-wordpress weblog post. The article it linked to is defunct, but here is a similar piece on the same story.]

Because we both know Texas wouldn’t hesitate to execute a huge multinational corporation if it were physically possible.

[This was a pre-wordpress weblog post. During the events of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, there was a brief window when Fats Domino was feared lost. He turned out to be safe and sound. Here is the relevant wikipedia section. The original yahoo news story I linked to is defunct.]

This is an utter tragedy. There are very, very few celebrities I would be as loathe to lose as Fats Domino. I can only hope that they find him.

[This pre-wordpress weblog post originally linked to a news story which is now defunct. Here is a more recent story about the same phenomenon.]

I don’t know quite what I can say that adds to that headline. Apparently there are some giant killer mice on a British run island in the South Atlantic and they eat baby birds alive. This, by my reckoning, makes then the second coolest mice of all time after the grasshopper mouse, which kills other mice and then does a death shriek. And then, I guess, number three is probably one of them rats from The Secret of N.I.M.H. Even if it was one of those rat mice.