first month in Stuttgart, there was a 120 vehicle pileup. not a typo.

first week in Korea i saw a bongo truck go off the side of a bridge.

and second day in Kuwait, an on-coming 6-series Beemer launched himself over the jersey barrier in my general direction, rolling sideways in our lane maybe a dozen times before i grabbed the wheel from the driver (who didn’t see it because he was telling me a fishing story) and veered us into the far right lane.

mostly folks in CO drive sensibly, if by “sensibly” all i mean is “not as ass-backwards as most of the rest of the country.”

May be we should issue dividends based on overdue fines so they see a return they actually understand.

Excellent work O’G. Keep the rubber side down…..and “reaching for the stars!”

That is sarcasm in case you are a little too easily offended. I guess this means that we have returned to the days of my college age youth when the biggest ‘news story’ on campus was “Fighting Words.” And “what are those?”, you may ask. Well….it is like the adage: Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me. Except in this case replace the word “never” with “always.”

Lesson learned from this: no matter what someone says, you may learn something if you pay attention to what is being said.

On another note, I wondered why no one on here commented on another NPR link I made on Nov. 1st; and I also wondered today what it was about. Therefore, I dug it up and found the link didn’t work.

So here’s the link again, in case anyone cares still because I think this was and is an important news story. If nothing else, it offsets a little bit of Chris Hedges’ argument on journalism…just a bit.