michael vick

Rob Huddleston begs to differ with his fellow paleo-leaning theoconservative

I’m not sure yet of the advantages of owning goats. (Besides the sheer comedic value of having Aunt B ring you up and make baaah bah noises)  But, here I am, with two recently weaned kids.  They are both female, and I have named them, (over strenuous objections from my children) Thelma and Louise.

If I could stuff these into a chocolate, I would:

Today I learned that Michael Vick will get to retain the bonus money given to him by the Atlanta Falcons when he signed the contract to be their quarterback...amounting to double digit millions of dollars. So...Michael Vick is made a scapegoat by violating a questionable law (my opinion regarding this is well-documented in a previous blog) that is violated by many others daily, and goes to jail. ...

Mainly because it’s the world’s longest sneeze (with the exception maybe of elephants, having never witnessed elephant sneezes), starting way back near her brain and working its way down her snout so that she’s got to shake her head and curl her lips to finally get it to let go and come out.  It’s like HRExxrhezzzheepbhbpt.  And then she kind of is startled by it, like she’s looking out in front of her for whatever dastardly being must have certainly ju

Only Dave Berry could do a year in review so well. He covers it month by month. Go read it. Some highlights:

On a somber note, Anna Nicole Smith is finally laid to rest in the Bahamas in an intimate funeral service attended only by family, close friends, acquaintances, total strangers, tourists and an estimated 750 cable-TV legal analysts, several of whom have to be fo

Michael Vick, the very talented and now jailed quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, is serving 23 months in jail for abusing dogs. I detest people who abuse animals, but I have to think Vick's sentence has more to do with who he is than what he did. What if he were white?...Or the son of a Republican?

In Roane County, Tennessee a man was sentenced to probation for killing his wife's lover. "He

ROLLING HILLS

From high on a ridge we see the three chained men running toward us.

In addition to their clanks we hear a distant chugging sound.

TRACKING

Laterally with the clanking, running feet.

The chugging sound is very loud.

RUNNING

Next to a freight train. A boxcar door is open.