Headline in today’s paper: “Gay rights leader from Ark. lets his roots take the reins.”
I wonder whether people who mix metaphors like that have an impoverished imagination. Otherwise wouldn’t bizarre images leap to mind and force a rewrite?
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That Is a Puzzler
I found this note while going through old papers:
“The question is how you can best deter illegal immigrants and continue our heritage of an open immigration policy.”
– INS commissioner Alan Nelson, quoted in the Christian Science Monitor, 12/17/84
Nuns On a Bus
Priorities
Overheard at a local restaurant, from someone discussing the recent Auburn shootings: “And the worst thing of all is, I used to live in that apartment complex.”
The Atrocity of Hope, Part 21: Dronespeak
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In Hoc Signo Vinces
From Christian News Wire. (CHT Bruce Majors; be sure to read the whole thing.)
A Cross made from the Cross carried Around the World on foot by Arthur Blessitt (319 nations, island groups and territories almost 40,000 miles) Is ‘Now Orbiting The Earth’! The Cross went up on the SpaceX Falcon 9 Dragon Spacecraft. Celestis was the launch company.
The Celestis canister with the Cross was carried as a secondary payload on the Falcon 9’s second stage & is not on the Dragon. The cross in space is expected to remain in orbit for a year or more.
In other words, it was discarded and left to fall to earth in flames?
The Cross was carried Around the Earth on foot and Now the is Cross Flying Around this Earth over Washington DC, Saudi Arabia, Jerusalem, Asia, Australia etc.
I’m having trouble picturing the shape of this orbit. I think Isaac Newton might be puzzled too.
The cross is passing over you where ever you are.
Okay, that doesn’t help with the orbit thing.