News and views about “out there.”
When I was in high school, Pat Benatar had the hit song. We used to sing it, with relish, because we were angst-ridden teenagers that thought for some reason the world owed us something, that we were somehow special in our feeling messed up. We imagined we were hurt somehow. They cry in the dark, […]
CNN.com – Dolphins save swimmers from shark – Nov 22, 2004: “Lifesavers Rob Howes, his 15-year-old daughter Niccy, Karina Cooper and Helen Slade were swimming 100 metres (300 feet) off Ocean Beach near Whangarei on New Zealand’s North Island when the dolphins herded them — apparently to protect them from a shark. ‘They started to […]
If the Aussies didn’t think we were nuts before, they do now. Mother of God! The cost of a US sandwich! – National – www.theage.com.au This is a subscription so the article will probably only be up for a bit. So here ’tis. And I promise to cut back on my VMGC posts. A Florida […]