Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Publius Vergilius & The Devil

Big News

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took his verbal battle with the United States to the floor of the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday, calling President Bush "the devil." Bush responded immediately by asking the CIA to find Venezuela and tap their phones.
- Chavez didn't mean it. It's just something he read in a Democrat blog.

- The latest polls show that President Bush's popularity has rebounded to 45%. And since that's ten percent more than ever vote, Republicans want another tax cut.

September 21st Now & Then

This is National Dog Week, a time to do nice things for your dog: play ball with him, scratch his ears, get him a new bone and bury it for him.....
- Let him watch you worm the cat....

The poet Virgil died on this day in the year 19 B.C. His real name was Publius Vergilius Maro. He wrote "Georgic," "Aeneid," and "Ecologues." And today, time permitting, we will not read any of those.

Farm Safety Week Fun Liners

Writer Stephen King is 58 today. Stephen’s birthday parties are different. Everybody drinks bloody marys and lights a candle and eats cake mix right out of the box.
- Then they get into their scrubs and play Cut the Tail Off the Donkey.

This is Dried Fig Week in California. The state's nudists will observe the occasion by wearing dried fig leaves.

Love & Learn

Teens: Irregular Heartbeat Can Be Dangerous - Some warning signs for cardiac arrhythmia in teens.

To Be Equal - National attention needed to speed Gulf Coast rebuilding.

Book Reviews: The Homework Myth - For parents who hate the homework wars, “The Homework Myth” by Alfie Kohn will seem like a lifeline.

The Alert Consumer - I'm ready to move to the Web's next level.

Today's medical tip:

Always check the diplomas in your doctor's office. And remember, there is no such medical school as Olivia Newton-John's Hopkins.

Today's Soap Opera Update:

Today on "The Young and the Clueless," Cricket shows Skylar the tumbling routine that caused the school board to meet in an all-night executive session.

Shallow Football Thought

Actually, the Redskins might be better off to practice coin-toss calling.

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