Daily Archives: October 12, 2003
Pay your Electric bill — or Fluffy gets it
MOSCOW – For a Russian electricity company, pets are not just for Christmas — they are for ransom. Russia’s First Channel television reported Dalenergo, an electricity company in Russia’s Far Eastern city Vladivostok, is so frustrated by customers who owe … Continue reading
Compassionate Fascism
The Prophet of the Orange Line The Dowbrigade is lately a patron of the Boston Mass Transit system, being between cars as it were, and the experience is invigorating and instructional. It means leaving the house a bit earlier in … Continue reading
University Founder Murdered by President
from the Boston Globe Here’s a story out of California which features money, power, murder by poisoning and a cover-up in academia. It turns out that Jane Stanford, wife of the founder of Stanford University, and its guiding light after … Continue reading
People Get Ready
Ever since the Terminator won that trumped-up election in California in the slickest piece of political prestidigitation since Kennedy got elected by dead people in Chicago, I have been working on a wry post along the lines of "Sorry, Arnie, … Continue reading