Starting Monday, police [in Illinois] no longer will be allowed to pull over motorists solely because they have something hanging from the rearview mirror of the windshield. That means air fresheners, parking placards and, yes, even those dice are fair game to hang.
Not all the news is bad.
Boeing has urged airlines to inspect all 737 Max airplanes for a possible loose bolt in the rudder-control system after an international airline discovered a bolt with a missing nut while performing routine maintenance, the Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday.
According to some of the rowdier newspapers I read there are a lot of nuts rattling around in airliners these days.
One of them may be seated in your row.
…won the Wisconsin State High School Ice Fishing Championship in 2020. The 2024 contest is scheduled for February 16-17 on the Mississippi River at Lacrosse.
If, that is, there's ice to fish through. Just the other day, the New York Times reports…
Ted Bonde, the president of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Fishing Association, said ice-fishing competitions in much of the state had been pushed back at least a week as wintertime anglers waited impatiently for the cold to set in.In fact the entire Midwest, the Times informs us, is confounded by unseasonably warm weather so far this winter [winter arrived last week – ED.]. "Ernesto Londoño reported from St. Paul, Minn.…he managed to walk his dog, Hugo, wearing a T-shirt on Christmas Day."
I was unaware of the depth of Swift scholarship until I arrived at Indiana University’s Buskirk-Chumley Theater on a lovely fall morning — and picked up a schedule that offered lectures such as “Aesthetic Jurisdiction, Parasocial Engagement, and Negative Space Intellectual Property in the Taylor Swift Fandom.”…you realized you were just plain too damn old.
For better or for worse, a wave of couples saying “I do” in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve could set a record for the city’s busiest wedding day ever.
That’s because 12/31/23 is known in the massive Las Vegas wedding industry as a “specialty date,” thanks to the repeating 1-2-3 1-2-3 pattern, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
Somebody, somewhere, must be making odds.
…is sort of like Brigadoon. It only opens on Sunday once every seven years. Those would be the years Christmas falls on a Monday.
I have extra grocery shopping to do for Christmas because my job is to make the family Christmas dinner (my sister does Thanksgiving, so that works out fine). And I actually thought about doing it today, the shopping, because I like to start with fresh stuff.
But I chickened out.
What if I got distracted somehow (it's been known to happen) and didn't get checked out before closing time? Would I be stuck there until it opened up again in seven years?
I got all my groceries yesterday. It'll work.
