The list: Nos. 1-17, 18-24, 25-30, 31-39, 40-43. 40. Clayton, Ga. Jan. 10. 55-year-old Waffle House employee struck and killed by unknown vehicle while walking to work. 41. Lower Pottsgrove, Pa. Jan. 28. Woman struck by vehicle outside pharmacy. Treated…
Chuck Diesel’s Cancer Scare
I’ll tell you what I got to thinking when they started throwing the words “Charlie Dawg” and “biopsy” around: “Baby Hickey may never get to meet the best dog in the whole wide world, and damned if I’m going to…
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Hit-and-Run America
The list: Nos. 1-17, 18-24, 25-30, 31-39. 31. Knoxville, Tenn. Jan. 30. 19-year-old woman critically injured when red Mitsubishi Eclipse strikes her when she gets out of car to check unrelated ice-involved collision. 32. Omaha, Neb. Jan. 31. 24-year-old struck…
Charlie Dawg Update
The wrap came off her leg yesterday, exposing a shaved calf and paw. Looks weird to see a dog’s toes for the first time after a dozen years. Biopsy results aren’t back yet, but she’s hanging in there. The scar…
Kitty Pix (With a dwarfy twist)
Listen, I know it’s nowhere near right, but I never mentally progressed beyond the point that the occasional midget-show on TV doesn’t make me giggle, at least inside. For this, I’m sorry. It’s just not right. It’s just true. I…
Hit-and-Run America
Well this first one doesn’t add to the tally, because I’ve been numbering the ones I see with no arrests (in some cases, yet). But a shoplifting suspicion/likely-arrest led to a 39-year-old widely-respected documentary editor in New York CIty. That…
Weekend Reading Roundup (Serious Bid’ness Edition)
Odd that the Sunday papes’ eye-catching stuff was business-related. But it was, so let’s dispense with shouting out the Inquirer’s pieces on the looming Comcast/NBC mergers in D.C. and the long-overdue start of Delaware River dredging (both of which I’ve…