A scene in Dhaka Bangladesh earlier today. You write the cutline.Top Cutlines: 1. (tie, after further review) Too hot to fly in BanglaDesh, these ducks are shown getting "frequent rider miles" -- CDADave. And: Said one quacker to another: "Would you please get "down" off…
This morning a CdA Resort van headed south on Second Street with a green light to go through the Sherman intersection but had to stop for a jaywalking woman. The van driver, a salt & pepper-haired older man with a beard, hollered at the woman…
*Fellow blogger Russ Lipton/News Is A Conversation tipped me off to Michael Yon, a sensational e-ziner who may be providing the best, evenhanded reporting from Iraq, here....*Can anyone explain to me how violent sex offenders John Collins Tuggle and Joseph Edward Duncan III could chance…
I am reading with great interest of the foresight and support that midtown received in the past. My question is, "Does the current City Administration get very involved in midtown issues?" From the outside looking in, I always "hear" that it is the red-headed step…
With nearly 7,000 votes counted, U.S. Sen. George Allen, R-Va., edged ex-NYC mayor Rudy Giuilani for the 2008 GOPrez fave in an online poll here. Meanwhile, blogger TimSaler.com sees Allen and Hillary as the frontrunners for the '08 nominations in his analysis of the top…
Dang nails it ...
Issue: Papers pull 'Doonesbury' over potty put-down: Others editing comic strip featuring Rove's nickname 'Turd Blossom'/Associated Press. (You can find the controversial strip here and a subsequent one here.)DFO: Dubya calls Rove "Turd Blossom"? Funny. I don't think I'd have pulled Garry Trudeau's comic strip…
I've just killed several blog hogs -- previously called blogopotamuses, for their length -- involved in the debate about Karl Rove, including one new poster, Rove Rules, who tried to get around the hog limit by posting a series of items defending Rove. I don't…
Remember a couple of years ago I shared with you the wedding story of Tara and Kyle Miller? Tara (pictured) was able to 'walk' down the aisle on her wedding day after being paralyzed by a stray bullet that came through the wall of her…
Issue: Midtown weighs strengthened identity: With vitality returning, merchants, residents talk and imagine direction area should take/Becky Kramer, SR (Kathy Plonka photo).DFO: Midtown already is changing, particularly the "Upper Midtown Area," where Coffeeville has taken over an old used-car dealership. If CDA does this area…
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has weighed in on President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, applauding Judge John Roberts in all areas, yet lamenting the fact that he's not a woman.I'll bet, back in 1981 when O'Connor herself was nominated by President Reagan, there were similar comments.…
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
