Bruce Mitchell wrote Sun 12/23/12 @00:44 PST:

Thanks for an exceptionally rich TH issue with lots of hyper-
links to follow, allowing me to continue enhancing my know-
ledge of your neck o' the woods. . . .  May I have your per-
mission to forward this issue to my list?

You are welcome, thank you, and, please, yes, forward any and all
issues to anyone you wish to.  Help us build our subscriber list.  – Ed.

J. Ewing wrote Sun 12/23/12 @05:36 EST:

"A lioness on contraceptives in Zimbabwe gave birth to a
 litter of 8. . . "?  Obviously, the lion trainer failed to teach
 the lioness to hold that contraceptive between her knees.
 Or should we be looking for a star over Zimbabwe?

Bruce Mitchell wrote Sun 12/23/12 @00:28 PST:

Who is Eleanor?  She's brilliant!

What happened to Jeanetta?

Thank you.  We guess you don't remember the editor's note following
Eleanor's first column, a little over a year ago.  Here's a link.  – Editor


Bruce Mitchell wrote Sat 12/22/12 @23:11 PST:

Brian Belargian's asinine comment is bad enough,  but the use of
three "you know"s in three sentences is maddening.  I was think-
ing that usage had died down, as I'd not heard it in a while. Now
it seems to be indicative of a sudden trend in the national dialogue.
I'm hearing it in damn near every discussion these days on news
programs and interviews about hot topics of the day.

Otherwise intelligent, educated friends have also recently adopt-
ed the habit;  and it's driving me nuts.   Just this week I attended
screenings of two new films followed by Q&A with Matt Damon
and Dustin Hoffman  – both of whom inserted a "you know" into
every other sentence.  I admit to having been predisposed to irri-
tation with the movie stars from having to wait in line prior to each
screening with a dear friend – previously never known to employ
the irritating  "you  know" – who now drops it into every damned
sentence!  I soooo craved to tell her to stop it! – but feared of of-
fending.  How does one deal with this sad habit and an otherwise
respected friend who has become so annoying to listen to?

Just as annoying to me is the mispronunciation of "mischievous" as a four-syl-
lable word – you know, moving the accent to the second syllable and inserting
a third syllable "vee" that is not even in the word.*  Both NPR's David Greene,
host of Morning Edition,  and an author he interviewed  did  that  last week,  in
separate interviews.

Re-education is the answer. Let's send them all back to school.  Sandy Hook,
a recently abandoned elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, has room;
and then we could recruit someone with an assault rifle  to renew a recent tra-
dition there.
                                                                                                          – Eleanor

* Just to make sure I had not overlooked a tidal cultural change, I looked it up.
   The mispronunciation is not even mentioned in my 1983 Random House dic-
   tionary;  but it is,  of course,  in my 2001 New American Oxford:  "Mischie-
   vous,"  it says,  "is a three-syllable word.  Take care not to use this incorrect
   four-syllable pronunciation:  'mis-CHEE-vee-us'."  (This dictionary lists also
   five Mitchells, including Joni but not Martha.)

   Then I went on line. Yup, there it is, as an accepted alternative pronunciation,
   listed in a number of dictionaries, including Merriam-Webster.

A man from Indianapolis was arrested hunting rabbits on the grounds of the North
Putnam County High School near Bainbridge. . . .

  

Monserrate Shirley's half-brother-in-common-law, Robert Leonard; The perps in jailhouse orange: Monserrate, her lover Mark Leonard, and his half-brother Robert arraigned for blowing up Monserrate's house for insurance money, killing two neighbors and destroying dozens of other houses

                                                                               [courtesy Indianapolis Star]

A new high school in McCracken County was seeking to sell naming rights
to its football stadium for $200,000.
                                                                                    [courtesy Paducah Sun]

Most wanted April Ester, 30, WF, 5'6", 125 lbs; Paranita Black, 31, BF, 5'10", 300 lbs; Carole Anderson apprehended (Herald-Leader)

Local honey: Jeanetta wasn't there (false advertising at Sun Valley Feed Mill, Brownsville)

"If I could give an award to President Obama and Senator Feinstein, they
 would be sales persons of the year."
                                                              – Virginia firearms merchant Chuck Nesby

"TV is the first screen, and the social media of your choice is on your second screen."

                                                                                                            – Renée Montagne

"I can't wait to go to Asia.  I love soup.  I really want to go to Vietnam and
 try some soup."
                                                        – Miss Universe, Olivia Culpo of Rhode Island

Rickey Henderson, 54
Karl Rove, 62
Sissy Spacek, 63
Barbara Mandrell, 64
Merry Clayton, 64
Larry Csonka, 66
Jimmy Buffett, 66
Ken Stabler, 67

Karla Bonoff, 61
Marianne Faithfull, 66
Tracy Nelson, 68
Cokie Roberts, 69
Mary Tyler Moore, 76
Sandy Koufax, 77

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

Johannes Keppler (1571-1630)

Diane Sawyer, Sally Struthers and Lindsay Lohan and her
mother made the Frisky's list of top ten celebrities who in-
sisted they were "not drunk" in 2012.  . . . Wales’ Big Pit
National Coal Mining Museum installed 200 solar  panels
to save on heating. . . . A 21-year-old music senior at the
University of Cincinnati, in Ohio, got a  stalking  order  a-
gainst her Kansas parents. . . . A Clemson University stu-
dent placed rubber turtles in the middle of a South Caro-
lina road in an experiment to determine  how  many  fatal
accidents they had and found that more are killed by mo-
torists swerving to hit them. . . . Two University of Cali-
fornia law students were charged with uncaging an exot-
ic bird at the Flamingo casino in Las Vegas and behead-
ing it.  . .   .  A poll conducted by three Mystery Science
Theater 3000 alumni found the Twilight series the worst
movie of all time. . . . A chicken clucking at 6:15 a.m. a-
wakened,  and  thus  rescued,  a couple in Alma Center,
Wisconsin,  whose house was on fire  (the chicken and a
cat also escaped, but another cat died).

 [courtesy Harper's Weekly, Frisky, MSNBC.com, AP]

The sports:  

My mom is in her 60's and has been divorced and wid-
owed both.   She wants to find someone to spend time
with, and we want her to be happy.

But Mom has devoted herself to this  "man search"  to
the point that nothing else is important.  Whenever she
meets a man,  she  becomes  totally  absorbed  in  him.
When  we ask her to do things with her grandchildren,
she will reply, "I don't know. I might get a better offer."
When we invite her to the kids' events, she'll say,  "I'm
not sure. I am hoping someone will ask me out." Now
we don't call so often because it hurts to be second fid-
dle to any guy she just met  (or hasn't yet).  Mom often
just waits by the phone for "him" to call instead of going
out with other people.

We wish she would find time for the family that loves
her.  What can we do?
                                                    – Never the Better Offer

Five minutes after the invention of tools: 'Can me borrow those?'

Stephen Yates wrote Sun 12/16/12 @09:56 CST re last week's item quoting Kentucky
State Senator Kathy Stein calling State Senator Mike Wilson a narrow-minded "nimrod":

But he is a narrow-minded nimrod!  And that is putting it nicely.

Len wrote Sat 12/15/12 @13:49 EST:

I should say an apology is warranted,  but not to Wilson.  She should
apologize for disrespecting the nimrod community by associating Wil-
son with them, casting them in a negative light.

Two police cars rushing to the scene of a shooting collided  in an in-
tersection in Evansville at which a stop sign had been knocked over,
sending three officers to the hospital. . . .

A Cedar Lake man, arrested with 47 guns in his home after he told
his wife  he would kill her at the school where she worked  and  as
many other people as he could before police stopped him, was on-
ly bluffing, police concluded. . . .

The state's supreme court let stand a ruling ordering the Indianapo-
lis Star to reveal the identity of the maker of an anonymous defam-
atory comment on its web site.
                                                            [courtesy Associated Press]

Home owner Monserrate Shirley, her lover, and his half-brother
were charged with murder in the Southport explosion that killed
two persons next door and destroyed dozens of homes in South-
port six weeks ago.  In a scheme to collect insurance money, in-
vestigators said,  gas was allowed to leak from a fireplace to go
off on a microwave oven's timer.
                                                            [courtesy Indianapolis Star]

The Maker's Mark Bourbon House and Lounge in Louisville ask-
ed a black man seeking to make reservations for a party what the
ratio of blacks to whites would be in his group and refused his re-
quest when he said it would be all black,  according to a discrimi-
nation suit filed in a state court.
                                                                                [courtesy AP]

A Harlan coal miner who blew the whistle on safety violations, leading
to guilty pleas by the company and three supervisors in a federal court,
was facing state discipline for participating in the violations.

  
                                                                           [courtesy Lexington Herald-Leader]

Lexington's most wanted: Carole Anderson, 42, WF, 5'4", 150 lbs.

See also the sports, below.

"The world is going to end, but we don't know when."
                                                                                    – Mayan shaman Petronilo Acevedo Pena

 "In Congress and in our nation, we're truly all together in the same canoe.
  If we paddle together in unison, we can travel great distances. If the two
  sides of the canoe paddle in opposite directions, we will go in circles."

                                                                           – lame duck Senator Daniel Akaka, of Hawaii

"These kids haven't even had a chance, you know? They didn't even get a
 chance to steal a candy bar from Stop & Shop,  you know what I mean?
 It's unfortunate,  you know?"
                                                                    – Brian Belargian, father of a pupil who was not
                                                                       shot at the school in Newtown, Connecticut

Jordin Sparks, 23
Barkha Dutt, 41
Carla Bruni, 45
Brad Pitt, 49
Chris Matthews, 67
Cicely Tyson, 79
Little Jimmy Dickens, 92

In the same week  20 first-graders and 6 teachers were mowed
down by gunfire at a school in Connecticut, police in Oklahoma
arrested a high school student who was planning to shoot class-
mates, police in Indiana seized 47 guns from a man who said he
would attack a nearby elementary school, police shot a gunman
who wounded 3 people at a hospital in Alabama,  a  man  shot
and killed 2 people at a mall in Oregon  and  2 policemen were
shot to death outside a grocery store in Kansas, a federal court
of appeals struck down the country’s only statewide prohibition
on carrying concealed weapons. . . . All  31  senators  with gun
rights voting records declined invitations to Meet the Press. . . .
A man in Richland Hills,  Texas,  carved a pentagram on his 6-
year-old son's back on 12/12/12.  .  .  .  A report in the British
medical journal Lancet found obesity to be a bigger problem in
the world than hunger.  . . .  A lioness on contraceptives in Zim-
babwe gave birth to a litter of 8. . . .Tomasz Paczkowski, of El-
blag, Poland, burnt his ear mistaking an iron for a telephone. . . .
Five Northern Illinois University  fraternity  boys  were charged
with felony hazing and 17 others were charged with misdemea-
nors  in the death of a pledge whose blood alcohol content was
.40 per cent. .  .  . The Beta Theta Pi fraternity at the University
of Kansas was suspended by its national organization for tortur-
ing a turkey at a party. .  .  . Data analysts predicted that gun fa-
talities would exceed traffic fatalities in the U.S. by 2015.

[courtesy Harper's Weekly, Huffington Post, MSNBC.com, AP]

An exhibit titled "Baseball Hotties: Studs We Love" opened in the
Louisville Slugger Museum in Kentucky. . . .

Georgetown, St. John’s, Villanova, DePaul, Marquette, Seton Hall
and Providence universities  "left"  the "Big East" athletic conference.
Joining  the Big East,  to maintain its 12-team membership,  will  be
San Diego State, Boise State, Memphis, Central Florida,  Houston,
and Southern Methodist.

My wife and I have been married for five years.  I re-
cently discovered  that she made between 10 and 20
porn videos when she was 19.  She was 27 when we
married.  We have four kids from two previous marri-
ages.

When I confronted her about it, she cried harder than
I had ever seen.  She said it’s the regret of her life.   I
understand how hard it can be to tell someone you've
done something like this. I haven't led a perfect life ei-
ther, and I have my own skeletons and things I would
never mention. But still I can’t get over this. I love my
wife, and I don’t want a divorce; but it haunts my ev-
ery thought. We've had a great life, and I trust her to-
tally.  What should I do to get over this?
                                                                – Devastated

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/11/27/3931616/dear-abby-wife-has-a-secret-past.html#storylink=cpy

Ditto yer Xmas lights Maricopa, Arizona

Stephen Yates wrote Sun 12/9/12 @08:42 CST re the nurse
at Kate Middleton's hospital who committed suicide after fall-
ing for a  prank  telephone  call  from Australian disk jockeys
pretending to be Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles:

As Cooter Brown said, "It's all fun and games until
someone blows heir brains out."

Jacintha Saldanha, 46, was found in her hospital quarters, by another nurse, hanging by a scarf from a wardrobe

Philip Womack wrote Tues 12/11/12 to Harper's Weekly:

I am a fervent subscriber  (if there can be such a thing)  to
your excellent magazine.We have nothing equivalent in Eng-
land, and I am very grateful to you for being so challenging
and thought-provoking.

However,  the English pedant in me is reeling at your other-
wise excellent Harper's Weekly in which you announce that
"Prince  William  and  Princess  Kate"  are  having  a  baby.
Yikes! They're the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. She's
not Princess Kate,  as she's not a princess in her own right;
she’s  Princess  William  of Wales,  otherwise known as the
Duchess of Cambridge, until the Prince of Wales dies, when
she'll be the Princess of Wales,  and  not  Kate,  Princess of
Wales.

Sigh.  I know I am fighting a long and hopeless battle.  Even
British journalists can't get it right these days.

The retail section of the post office in the Ohio River hamlet Beth-
lehem was closed temporarily on the retirement of the postmaster
without a replacement,  but the Bethlehem postmark has been re-
located to the post office in  New Washington,  eight miles to the
west in Clark County,  so  that  the usual thousands of Christmas
cards postmarked "Bethlehem" can be mailed this season. . . .

The average Hoosier, unlike his governor, governor-elect and leg-
islators,  does not favor a tax cut,  favors  increased  government
spending, and does not favor a constitutional prohibition of same-
sex marriage, according to a poll conducted by Ball State Univer-
sity and WISH-TV.
                                                             [courtesy Louisville Courier-Journal]

Huy Bui was arrested for murder in Indianapolis.

                                                            [courtesy Indianapolis Star]

"Get me to the church on time!"  Police arrested Timothy Thomp-
son,  23,  about 7 p.m. at Our Savior Catholic Church in Portage
as he arrived after a 100-m.p.h. trip on a state highway and spun
his Jeep in a "doughnut."  He told them he was to be married at 7
p.m.  He had just been released from jail,  and  police  took  him
back.  He didn't make the wedding. . . .

A man walked into a women's dormitory at Purdue University and
took photographs of two women showering. . . .

The Bloomington South High School girls basketball team beat In-
dianapolis Arlington 107-2.
                                                                [courtesy Associated Press]

State Senator Kathy Stein, a Lexington Democrat,  apologized for
calling Senator Mike Wilson, a Bowling Green Republican, a "nar-
row-minded nimrod" on a blog that spilled onto Clutterbook Face-
book.
                                            [courtesy Lexington Herald-Leader]

"Justin Wayne Campbell, illegal take/pursue any bear.  Continued
 to Jan. 15."
                    [courtesy Edmonson News ("The Gimlet"):  This is the
                     entirety of an item that appeared in "District court news."]

Class notes in the latest issue of the Western Kentucky University
alumni magazine included items  about  Jana  Fattic  ('98),  Donte
Pimpleton ('02), Chris Tinius ('03), and Marissa Oehlhof ('06).

                                                                   [courtesy WKU Spirit]

    

Lexington's most wanted, Jennifer Bickers, WF, 30, 5'3" 190 lbs

"Vastly superior to Belize jails.  The coffee is also excellent."
                                                                                                – John McAfee, in jail in Guatemala

"He won’t follow anyone for now.  He will be followed."

                                                                            – Vatican communications adviser Greg Burke,
                                                                               former Fox News correspondent in Rome, re
                                                                               the Pope's Twaddle Twitter account, @pontifex

[December 9:  The "warm highs" got nowhere near the middle 70's.  The high recorded in
                        Bowling Green was 67°;  at the offices of Borf Books, 62° (where the for-
                        sythia, or "Easter bush," was in bloom two days later).]

The  cyberstalker  can  follow your husband, your wife or your girl
friend or boy friend wherever he or she goes with his or her "smart
phone."   Senator  Al  Franken  has introduced a bill to prohibit its
manufacture and operation, and to disclose its use.

Taylor Swift, 23
Brenda Lee, 68
Dionne Warwick, 72
David Gates, 73
Tom Hayden, 73
Connie Francis, 74
Liv Ullmann, 74
Rita Moreno, 81
Carl Erskine, 86
Dick Van Dyke, 87
Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
Beethoven (1770-1827)

Chad Stuart (of "Chad & Jeremy"), 71
Eddie Jones ("Guitar Slim," 1926-1959)

     

50 foot tall rubber duck floats down the River Thames

The new Swedish ambassador violated diplomatic ethics by
crossing his legs in his first meeting with President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad  in Iran,  and Ahmadinejad retaliated by cross-
ing his own legs.  . . .  Greece was found to be the most cor-
rupt of the 27 nations in the European Union.  .  .  . Traffic in
Russia was jammed for three days on a 125-mile stretch be-
tween St. Petersburg and Moscow.  .  .  .  China planned to
flatten 700 mountains to build a new city. . . . Besse Cooper,
116,  the  world's  oldest person,  died in Monroe,  Georgia,
and Yao Defen, 40, the world's tallest woman, at 7' 8",  died
in Shucha, China  (leaving Dina Manfredini 115, of Johnston,
Iowa, as the new oldest person,  but no known successor to
world's tallest woman). . . .Yellowstone's most popular wolf
was shot and killed by hunters  outside the park's boundary.
.  .  . A muzzled dog, trapped for days in an abandoned van
with two other dogs and two cats, honked the horn until po-
lice came to the rescue  in  London,  Ontario. . . .  Elephant
dung coffee was selling for $50 a cup in Thailand. .  .  . The
New York City cop arrested for  cannibalism  had e-mailed
an acquaintance, "I'm planning on getting some girl meat for
Thanksgiving." . . . Honey Boo Boo made Barbara Walters'
list of the ten most fascinating people of 2012. . . .  Lindsay
Lohan will have to go back to court in Los Angeles January
15 to try to show a judge why she should not have to serve
245 days remaining on a suspended sentence. .  .  .  A man
with a knife at a school in China slashed 22 children and an
old woman  (no one was killed, but two students were seri-
ously injured), and a man with a gun at a school in Connec-
ticut killed 20 students and 7 adults.. . . Not everyone was
impressed by the suggestion of Vogue editor Anna Wintour,
who cannot bear meetings that last 20 minutes,  as the next
U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain.
         
   [courtesy Harper's Weekly, Snopes, Huffington Post, AP]

Heisman Trophy winner "Johnny Football" was reported
to be dating a model who is a senior at Texas A&M.

Several months ago my 17-year-old son's girl friend
had a baby. I was upset at first but then realized that
the young couple needed support and guidance. My
house now looks like a day care center.  I  paid  for
ultrasound,  bought  a heartbeat bear,  and hosted a
shower.  The girl friend's mother did not help much.

Two days after the shower,  the girl friend  told  my
son he was not the father.  He's  really  hurt. When
the baby came we were "texted."  My son filed for
paternity, and the girl let her 20 days go without re-
sponding.  My son took a  DNA  test,  and the girl
friend has now hired a lawyer.

The mother of  what  may  be  my  grandson  is 20
years old and intimidated by her mother.  That wo-
man  kept her own children away from their father.
Now  she won't let her daughter take the baby out
of the house alone.  It's been two months,  and we
have not seen nor held the baby yet.  Any ideas?

                                             Heartbroke Mammaw

Unidentified Bardstown Road hottie

J. Ewing wrote Sun 12/2/12 @13:58 EST about the English couple
who had their 16th child:

Sue and Noel best get busy if they are going to outdo the Duggars,
of Arkansas, who've had 19.

Yeah, but the Duggars cheated – they've had two sets of twins.    – Ed.

Joseph (sic) Worley, of Muncie, finally got his photo ID after a 2-year battle in the courts over the spelling of his first name

The CSX railway announced that it would begin running its
trains through Muncie at  60 miles an hour  to answer con-
cerns about delays at crossings. . . .

A 13-year-old boy on Indianapolis' East Side showed a 13-
year-old girl a bloody knife and told her he would kill her if
she did not sit with him on the school bus  and  then,  when
she did,  exposed  himself  and told her he would kill her if
she told anyone  (but she did,  and he was suspended from
school). . . .

The decomposed body of a 29-year-old missing man was
found in a freezer that had not been turned on in the base-
ment of a 51-year-old companion in Kokomo. . . .

An ambulance collided head-on with another vehicle on Fall
Creek Road east of Indianapolis.  No  one   appeared to be
seriously  injured,  including the patient,  who slid forward in
the crash. . . .

A doll exploded in a street intersection in Angola.

                                                            [courtesy the Star]                                           putting one little word after another and why would this writer for the Indianapolis Star, Matthew Tully, allow his photograph to run with his column?

A 300-gallon chicken oil spill had motorists sliding all up and
down Court Street in Jeffersonville.

        [courtesy the columnist formerly known as Bob Hill]

Lonely Planet, a "budget travel publisher" now owned by the
BBC, named Louisville the top 2013 travel destination of the
United States,  citing the city as a "jump-off for the Bourbon
Trail"  (rounding out the Top Five were  Fairbanks,  the San
Juan Islands of Washington, Philadelphia, and American Sa-
moa).
                                                    [courtesy Courier-Journal]

Lexington's most wanted: Mark Evans, Terri Ritchie, Karen Hernandez

 

Katrina Dixon, 35, and Ashley Coffey, 25, were arrested for calling in forged prescriptions from the dentist's office they worked at in London (courtesy Lexington Herald-Leader)

"Ashley Judd is way too damn liberal for our country and our state.  I heard she
 lives in Scotland.  I thought she was running for Parliament."

                                – U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, addressing speculation that Judd
                                   would seek senior Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell's seat in 2014

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/12/05/2432771/rand-paul-says-ashley-judd-is.html#storylink=cpy

"This has been discussion that is going to go on and on for the foreseeable future,
 and probably well beyond the foreseeable future."
                                                                                – Philip Verveer, Dep. Asst. Sec. of State

"Making it work for you and to be able to make a living and support yourself or to become
 what’s considered successful or popular can be a whole another story!"
                                                                                                                            – Axl Rose

"It's one thing to win; it's a whole another thing to improve while you are winning."

                                                             – Tom Crean, Indiana University basketball coach

"Paul Wallich, a contributing editor at IEEE Spectrum has taken it to a whole another level,
 assembling a quadcopter DIY drone that can follow his kid to the bus stop."

                                                                                                – Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

The headline in the middle of the Louisville Courier-Journal's
web page said, "3 PEOPLE HAVE UNFRIENDED YOU,"
with a tag to click to see who they were. Well, we were real
curious, since we have (or had) only three friends on Clutter-
book Facebook to begin with.  Sure 'nough,  we were taken
to another page  that  our  "malware" reported as "malicious"
– dangerous to our computer's health.

Katarina Witt, 47
Greg Allman, 65
Jose Carreras, 66
Wayne Penniman ("Little Richard"), 80
Jaye P. Morgan, 81
Jean-Luc Godard, 82
Dave Brubeck, 91 years and 365 leap year days (1920-2012)

David Houston (1938-1993)
Jean Ritchie, 90

Green Berry Raum (1829-1909)
George Brinton McClellan (1826-1885)
Charles Adam Heckman (1822-1896)
Thomas Alfred Davies (1809-1899)
Henry Alexander Wise (1806-1876)

The top ten baby names of 2012 are (in order) Rue, Emmett,
Ivy, Weston, Adele, Grayson, Aria, Cyrus, Estelle, and Cato
(but the year isn't over; Hasselhap may yet crash the list).. . .
WGN-TV in Chicago spent 15 minutes reporting a small air-
plane crash before realizing it was a  simulated  event  for the
Chicago Fire sitcom. . . .Tear gas was used against Islamists
protesting the arrival of Kim Kardashian in Bahrain  to  pro-
mote a milkshake shop. . . .The North Korean News Agen-
cy reported that archaeologists had  "reconfirmed"  the exis-
tence of a unicorn lair. . . . E-Bay pulled a listing for Obama
in Pee Pee, an art work by Glenn Beck with a bobblehead
of the President submerged in urine. . . . A study at the Uni-
versity of Edinburgh found that the more varied your friends
on Clutterbook Facebook, the more your anxiety. ... Three
donkeys have been killed with bow and arrow in the last 13
months on a farm near Fort Worth,  Texas. . . .  A&E TV's
Hoarders show presented a woman with  a  hundred  dead
cats in her refrigerator. .  .  .  Australian Prime Minister Julia
Gillard delivered a filmed address announcing the end of the
world, in accordance with a Mayan calendar. .  .  .  A nurse
at Kate Middleton's hospital who answered a telephone call
from Australian disk jockeys  pretending to be Queen Eliza-
beth and Prince Charles committed suicide.

Hannah Sabata, 19, of Waco, Nebraska, was arrrested after she bragged about her life of crime on a YouTube video she titled "Chick bank robber"

Basketball hottie, Katie Friedrich, Louisville Assumption High School; Volleyball hottie, Stephanie Klefot, University of Kentucky

I work so hard I don't have time to watch TV;  and
I don't like TV much, anyway.  But I hear it all the
time – at work,  in the stores,  and at home, where
my husband and my sons are continually watching
sports.  And I keep hearing this commercial about
"a reptile dysfunction."  It's not clear to me,  but it
seems  to have something to do  with  snakes  that
have lost their power  to  scare  women.  Can you
explain it to me?
                                           Curious in Connecticut

Publius Leget wrote Sun 11/27/12 @10:02:20 CDT
re last week's editorial:

Getting a little political, aren't we? Deporting citizens who have
declined to vote and who have voted in Republican and Liber-
tarian primaries?

Glass house, first stone, etc., etc. Perhaps it would interest  you to know
that both the editor and the publisher of Tabloid Headlines have voted in
Republican primaries the last four years.  But neither of us has petitioned
for secession from the United States.

You have a point, though. "Blue Dog" Democrats who petition for seces-
sion should go with them.
                                                                                                – Editor

A woman in Bloomington pleaded guilty to neglect in the starvation
death of her 25year-old disabled daughter. . . .

A Lafayette woman was charged with child exploitation and distri-
bution of child pornography for posting a nude photograph of her
teen-age daughter on the girl's Clutterbook Facebook page (sor-
ry, no pix of the girl; but there's a photo of the mother). . . .

Both the state police superintendent and the Indianapolis Star (yes,
the Indianapolis Star, in an editorial)  said  legalizing marijuana  has
merit.

                                   Cathy Kightlinger why would this Indianapolis star writer allow her photograph to run with her column

                                                                    [courtesy the Star]

A petition was circulating to dissolve the Pulaski County Public Libra-
ry District,  inspired by a tax increase from 6.3 cents to 6.4 cents per
$100 of assessed property value (but was discontinued after the spea-
ker of the State House of Representatives  said  legislation  would  be
considered to regulate special tax districts).

                                                      [courtesy Lexington Herald-Leader]

More than half the pupils stayed home from Warren East and Bowling
Green high schools after signs appeared on the restroom walls at both
schools,  later  circulated  on Twaddle Twitter  and Clutterbook Face-
book,  indicating that the world would end at a certain time the follow-
ing day  ("tweets"  included "Warren East High School,  population 6"
and,  regarding Bowling Green High,  "This is not Warren East.  This
is real").  No one was counted absent. . . .

Survivors listed in the obituary of Sherry Jane Webb,  64,  of Bowling
Green,  included a sister,  Sandra Goostree,  of Franklin.

                                                            [courtesy Park City Daily News]

See also the sports.

"He was a complete nerd, just like Fred."
                                                                        – Steve Yates

"Please stop watching it.  Please stop filling your head with filth."

                                                                         – Born-again Christian Angus T. Jones,
                                                                            child star of TV's 2½ Men (he's the 1/2)

Monica Seles, 39
Mariano Rivera, 43
Caroline Kennedy (formerly Kennedy-Schlossberg, and still married to the guy), 55
Bette Midler, 67
Radu Lupu, 67
Tina Turner, 73
G. Gordon Liddy, 82
Berry Gordy Jr., 83
Julie Harris, 87

Otto Carl Erdmann Kospoth, (1753-1817)
Johann Friedrich Reichardt, (1752-1814)
Johann Christian Frischmuth, (1741-1790)
Christian Friedrich Penzel, (1737-1801)
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wenkel, (1734-1792)

Sue and Noel Radford, of Morecambe, England,  had their
16th baby (Sue, 37, first became pregnant at age 14 – and,
no, this is not "dumb news from Kentucky"). . . . Olawale
Ayodeji  Agbede,  22,  was arrested for spanking a police
horse in Brandon, Florida.  .  .  . Australian navigators dis-
covered  that a 60-square-mile island  shown  on  Google
Maps  does  not  exist.  . . . A milk truck struck and killed
two cows in Clarno, Wisconsin. .  .  . Official Chinese me-
dia quoted an Onion report  that North Korea's Kim Jong
Un is the "sexiest man alive."  .  .  .  A Chinese model was
arrested for impersonating an officer after  posting  photos
of herself wearing a police uniform. . . . An anaconda vom-
ited a cow in Brazil (there's video, of course). . . . Lindsay
Lohan brushed off another woman's advances at  an  L.A.
night club. . . .  LiLo was arrested for punching out anoth-
er woman at a New York night club.  .  .  .  An Oregonian
with a 0.50 per cent blood alcohol  content drove his pick-
up through an overpass guard rail  and dangled over High-
way 217 for nearly an hour before being rescued.
   

L. T. Smith Stadium at Western Kentucky University in Bowl-
ing Green was host to the classes A,  3A,  and 4A  state high
school football championship games on Friday  and  the  2A,
5A  and 6A  championship games on Saturday. . . .

The University of Louisville, leaving the "Big East" college ath-
letic conference, was admitted to the  Atlantic Coast  Confer-
ence;  the  ACC  sued  the University of Maryland  for $52.3
million for leaving it for the "Big Ten,"  and  Tulane  University,
in New Orleans,  joined the "Big East." . . .

The crowd booed Justin Bieber at the Canadian football cham-
pionship halftime show (but roared for Gordon Lightfoot).

                                                                                                                   Dannielynn Smith, the late Anna Nicole's daughter, has a modeling career with Guess; she's 6 already.