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17% of Vermonters Admit Driving Drunk

Posted by Kirk M on 23 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: It figures

I banged into my local news site today and I immediately zoned in on this headline:
17% of Vermonters Admit Driving Drunk
Washington, D.C. - April 23, 2008
According to a new federal report, nearly one in six motorists in Vermont admit they have driven drunk. The report relies on information from the National Survey on Drug Use [...] Read more »

Here’s Your Pizza. That’ll be 2.6 Million Please.

Posted by Kirk M on 06 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: It figures

Somebody shoot me. Just hit my head with a hammer nice and hard and put me out of my misery:
Fourteen years ago, Chris Clark shelled out 20 bucks to register the domain name "pizza.com." This afternoon, he sold it for $2.6 million. "It’s crazy, it’s just crazy," he said [...] Read more »

Sending an Oblique Message to China?

Posted by Kirk M on 26 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: It figures, Times a changing

Four nose cone fuses for intercontinental ballistic missiles were mistakenly shipped to Taiwan supposedly in the Fall of 2006. A mistake that wasn’t found until just very recently so the officials say.
Okay…I believe it. And it’s obviously a complete and utter coincidence that it happened right in the middle of China having such [...] Read more »

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