News and views about “out there.”
We took the brood out to dinner last night, and chose Chili’s. My son chose Chili’s, I don’t think I would have picked it. Picture if you will: We arrive at 6:30 (woulda been sooner but soccer practice went past 6). There are already enough people waiting to entirely fill the little couches inside, so […]
A court in China’s southern boomtown of Shenzhen has fined a couple 780,000 yuan ($94,250) and sealed off their house for having more than one child, the Beijing Morning Post said Monday. The pair were among nine couples who were fined “social fostering fees” for their extra children, the newspaper said. They had their first […]
Flattened in ’69, Biloxi again at risk : “This week, as Hurricane Ivan looms in the Gulf of Mexico, residents don’t need an anniversary to remember Camille. ‘We’re scared to death,’ said Mayor A.J. Holloway, 65. ‘Anybody that went through Camille, that’s all we’re thinking about now.’” I know folks in the Bay Waveland area, […]