Publius Leget wrote Sun 9/20/20 @09:38 CDT:

I read in the Hurricane Wilfred link  that  "because of the lack
of names for some letters, there are no storms using the letters
Q, U, X, Y or Z."  Oh, yeah?  Whassammada wit' Quentin, U-
riah, Xavier, Yurian and Zeke?  Queenie, Ursula, Xena, Yvon-
ne and Zoe  (or Zooey)?   We could go on.  One of the biggest
windbags I ever knew was a guy named Yale.

Tested positive, 117,656; died, 3,566.
                                                               [courtesy N.Y. Times]

michcity.jpg Wanted in Michigan City: You figure it out. The Michigan City Police Department's Clutterbook Facebook page was designed and implemented by one of its perps' children. We know at least that the dog was picked upon Barker Avenue

The first black on death row at the federal prison in Terre
Haute  was  executed since the Trump administration this
year resumed executions after a two-decade pause.

                                           [courtesy Columbus Republic]

Tested positive, 69,150; died, 1,179.
                                                             [courtesy N.Y. Times]

A grand jury in Louisville warranted the unwarranted fatal
shooting of Breonna Taylor.   Among those arrested in pro-
tests in  Louisville   were  a state representative and two re-
porters.
                                                                       [courtesy LEX18]

davistev.jpg Lexington's most wanted, Steven P. Davis, BM, 33, 5'10", 190 lbs, wanton endangerment, heroin, paraph., parole violation (Bluegrass Crime Stoppers); Missing from Pikeville, Valoria Hunt, WF, 3, 5'8", 160 lbs (LEX18)

rayfordd.jpg Arrested in Abilene (Texas not Kansas): Rayford Dwayne Wheeler, WM, 33, 6'0", 155 lbs, injury to a child; Curtis Dusrin Dickerson, WM, 43, 5'8", 175 lbs, upsd. down ears, indec. w/child; Wanted in Waco: Robert Dan Parrish, BM, 63, 5'9", 140 lbs, fail. to register as sex offender; James Hamilton Tillery, WM, 28, 5'7", 127 lbs, probation viol. (aggr. assault); Kerry Lee King, BM, 42, 5'9", 235 lbs, probation violation (assault) (Abilene Crime Stopper, City of Waco)

thomcook.jpg Wanted in Wichita (Kansas, not Wichita Falls, Texas) (Sedgwick County Sheriff): Thomas J. Cook, WM, 31, 5'9", 175 lbs, felon with firearm; Elizabeth M. Murphy, WF, 19, 4'11", 140 lbs, prob. viol. (contrib. to child miscond.); Nathan M. Randall, WM, 39, 6'0", 180 lbs, felon with firearm; Amber N. Scuito, WF, 30, 5'10", 220 lbs (Yorkshire hog), burglary; Trent L. Dalberg, WM, 26, 6'0", 140 lbs, tattoo on neck, pro. viol. (aggr. assault, felon with firearm) (Sedgwick County Sheriff)

A man rode a horse down the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago, Illinois,
in  rush  hour  (he was arrested).  .  .  . The four town councilors of Black
Brook, New York, voted unanimously not to rename the hamlet Swastika,
N.Y.  . . . A national park in Thailand began mailing rubbish back to litter-
ers. .  .  .  The federal Department of Justice designated Portland, Oregon,
and Seattle, Washington,  and NewYork, New York,  as anarchist jurisdic-
tions." . . . Uncle Ben changed his name to Ben Original. .  .  . Vice Presi-
dent Mikey's airplane struck a bird on takeoff in New Hampshire, causing
the pilot to return to the airport out  of   caution.  The VP  flew home on a
Secret Service cargo aircraft. 
                                                                   [courtesy Harper's, LEX18, AP]

sanchezs.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County,Texas, Sheriff): Kenneth Lambert, 18, DUI; Camille Sanchez, 18, possession; Adrian Ybarra, 20, drunk; Beth Sanchez, 30, fam. ass.; Sabrina Medina, 30, crim. tresp.; Atonio Villegas, 43, DUI; Taylor Dawson, 27, marijuana; Evagine Shields, 34, tres.; Kory Lower, 46, parapher.

The Dallas (Texas) "Stars" are battling the Tampa Bay (Flori-
da) "Lightning"  for  the  National  Hockey  League's  Stanley
Cup in Edmonton,  Alberta,  Canada. . . .  Tabloid Headlines'
prediction for next year's championship series:  Kenya vs. Ec-
uador,  in  Fredericton,  New Brunswick,  Canada.. . . . The
Kentucky  High School Athletic Association abandoned bask-
etball's "jump ball" for a coin toss in obeisance to covid-19. . . .
Kobe Bryant's widow sued the Los Angles County, California,
Sheriff  over his deputies' photographs of the National Basket-
ball Association star's helicopter death.

DISCUSSION GROUP:     Don't  forget!  Readers interested in intellectu- al dissection of important current events are invi- ted to attend the Weekly World News Round Ta- ble at the offices of Borf  Books outside Browns- ville,  Kentucky,  just after church every Sunday. Guest speakers lined up for meetings in the near future include Brett Hankison,  the  one  cop (of three)  fired  and indicted  in the Breonna Taylor case  (but not for shooting Breonna Taylor).

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Anthony Dean wrote Sun 9/13/20 @10:52 CDT re last week's Dear Eleanor:

Among the worst abusers of authority are cops and flight attendants,
closely followed by medical professionals.

Tested positive, 111,900; died, 3,495.
                                                                   [courtesy N.Y. Times]
The state's chief justice tested positive.

                                                     [courtesy Columbus Republic]

Western wildfires were turning Indiana skies gray and red.

                                                         [courtesy Indianapolis Star]

A killer serving two life sentences without parole  and accused of
killing a fellow prisoner last year at the prison in Pendleton told a
judge he will keep killing people unless he gets the death penalty.

                                                                             [courtesy LEX18]

hardypeg.jpg South Bend's most wanted (another reminder that black crimer matters): Hardy Pegues, BM, 5'8", 185 lbs, family strangulation; Daveyaun Groves, BM, 6'1", 260 lbs,murder, upside down ears; Marcus Betts, BM, 5'11", 160 lbs, battery by deadly weapon; Alonzo Cleveland, BM, 6'1", 140 lbs, battery by d.w. (Michiana Crime Stoppers)

Tested positive, 64,155; died, 1,132.
                                                                   [courtesy N.Y. Times]

The Edmonson News,  in announcing a new location in Browns-
ville, said its deadline is "12 p.m. Friday" (you reckon there will
be anyone there to take your copy at midnight?   Don't oversleep
on Friday! Your obit might not make it!).
                                                                      [courtesy the Gimlet]

The University of Kentucky canceled 2021 spring break on ac-
count of the coronavirus pandemic (along with Ohio State Uni-
versity, Purdue, California State, the University of Iowa,  Iowa
State,  the University of Northern Iowa  and  the  University of
Wisconsin).
                                         [courtesy Louisville Courier-Journal]

A Louisville man took a Greyhound bus to Chicago with body
parts of his girl friend packed in his bags (he left her torso in a
park near his home).
                                                                          [courtesy LEX18]

. . . 'n' an'er'n' . . .        

warfield.jpg Lexington's most wanted, Jaron T. Warfield, BM, 29, 5'7", 200 lbs, wanton endangeerment, DUI, marijuana (Bluegrass Crime Stoppers)

bradlees.jpg Arrestd in Abilene (Texas, not Kansas): Brad Lee Stevenson, BM, 32, 5'8", 130 lbs, fam. viol.; Mike Isaac Gomez, HM, 28, 5'8", 140 lbs, injury to child; Braderick Benet Christian, BM, 34, 6'1", 190 lbs, uncertain ears, deadly family assault; Wanted in Waco: Stephanie Cortes, HM, 29, 5'3", 130 lbs, probation violation (joy ride);

                                             Rosemary Casals, 72
                                             Elgin Baylor, 86
                    September 17:  David Souter, 81
                                             Hank Williams (1923-1953)
                    September 18:  Lance Armstrong, 49
                                             Otis Sistrunk, 74
                                             Frankie Avalon, 80
                    September 19:  Leslie Hornby ("Twiggy Lawson"), 71
                                             Dave Bromberg, 75
                                             Sylvia Fricker, 80
                    September 20:  Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone ("Sophia Loren"), 86

Deaths:                 Bill Gates Sr., 94                 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 87                 Shere Hite, 77

This obituary ran for  51 consecutive days  on  the Louisville Courier-Jour- nal web site,  and  not  once  in the al- phabetical order intended – every day in the R's,  for "Ret." (retired).

Borf 's weekly BONUS:         "Transgender"  Ari  DiMezzo  won the Repub-         lican nomination for sheriff  of Cheshire Coun-         ty, New Hampshire, unopposed, on a campaign         slogan of "Fuck  the Police." . . . Wilfred is the         only name left for an  Atlantic  Ocean  tropical         storm this season. . . .  Production of Peeps has         by Covid-19. . . . A federal judge, in Pennsylva-

sheep,  "Ewenice," ––––––>         unshorn for four long years,         now 44 pounds lighter after         a woolcut. . . .  Barbados an-         nounced  that  it was dump-         ing  Queen  Elizabeth II  of         England as its head of state.         . . . Sheriff's deputies found

brennisf.jpg Wanted in Wichita (Kansas, not Wichita Falls, Texas): Brennis Lamarr Marutice Franklin, BM, 28, 5'9", 150 lbs (the only one of his four names that is not misspelled in his last name, which is a first name), probation violation (aggravated family battery); Armando Daniel Escobar-Delara, HM, 29, 5'5", 170 lbs, aggravated assault; Antonio Maurice Green, BM, 27, 5'8", 160 lbs, tattoo r. forearm, probation viol. (opiates, attempted arson); Decima Dawn Staub, WF, 37, 5'6", 170 lbs, tattoos both arms, l. hand, shoulder, right wrist, abdomen, prob. viol. (opiates, forgery) (Sedgwick County Sheriff)

shannaka.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County,Texas,Sheriff): Shanna Kaufmann, 35, theft of firearm; Lisa Everett, 57, theft; Irene Lara, 35, possession; Stacey Garcia, 35, possession; Christopher Lawrence, 38, Fam. as.; Paula Flanigan, 61, exp. lic.; Aalihay Rodriguez, 25, c.s.; Jandie Sanchez, 37, paraphernalia

The Washington formerly Redskins  made  their
2020 debut  in the National Football League   as
the "Washington Football Team." .  .  .  The  Big
Ten  announced that it will play football this fall
after all  (don't miss Nebraska at Rutgers). . . .

Celebrity lookalikes


                              Roger Federer              Victoria Azarenka

DISCUSSION GROUP:     Don't  forget!  Readers interested in intellectu- al dissection of important current events are invi- ted to attend the Weekly World News Round Ta- ble at the offices of Borf  Books outside Browns- ville,  Kentucky,  just after church every Sunday. Guest speakers lined up for meetings in the near future include Molly Wood.

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Hank T. Hebhoe wrote Sun 9/6/20 @09:27 CDT:

"Tuesday" in Polish is "wtorek" (pronounce the
"w" as an "f").  "Mardi" is French  (think "Mardi
Gras").

Anthony Dean wrote Sun 9/6/20 @22:51 CDT:

Given that Mardi Gras takes place in  New  Orleans
and that it has a significant Cajun population with a
French-influenced culture, it makes sense that "Mar-
di" would be a French word.  N'es pas?

You mean "n'est-ce pas"?  Mardi Gras takes place every-
where;  it's just  celebrated  a little more ostentatiously in
New Orleans.    – Editor

Bruce Mitchell wrote Sun 9/6/20 @22:34 PDT re the study
that found atheists sleep better than Baptists:

What, the fear of god doesn't help you sleep better?

That's what keeps me awake.    – Editor

Tested positive, 105,703; died, 3,420. . . .

A 17-year-old girl  and her 19-year-old boy friend  in  Lafayette
were alleged to have held up a 37-year-old pizza delivery driver,
who shot and killed the boy friend before the girl shot and killed
the driver; she was charged with murder in both deaths.

                                                        [courtesy Columbus Republic]

lisadawn.jpg Lafayette's most wanted: Damon L. Gardiner, WM, 47, 5'9", 210 lbs; Lisa Dawn Gailey, WF, 28, 5'3", 175 lbs, 10 tattoos, incl. "Love is Pyne," "Leeroy" & "Kacey" on breasts, "Myles," "Cece," "Miah," "Khalil," halo & angel wings; José Francisco Garcia, HM, 34, 5'5", 120 lbs; Rosa Maria Garcia-Maldonado, HF, 51, 5'3", 130 lbs; Chandler Raven Garling, WM, 19, 6', 180 lbs, tattoo on neck? All wanted by Tippecanoe Sheriff for F.T.A.

These  are  among license   plate   re- quessts     refused by    the    Indiana Bureau  of  Motor Vehicles this year.    [courtesy LEX18]

licplate.jpg WTF2020. C0VID19, FKNGWRD0, P000PS

Tested positive, 59,349; died, 1,087 (finally over 1,000). . . .
     

Why would there be   a   swimming pool     extending out into a lake? [stupidity Kentucky   Living magazine]

This handmade li- cense  plate  got a motorist  pulled o- ver in Millersburg (he   was  charged also  with  driving on a suspended li- cense and no insu- rance. . . .

A black woman (no kin to Breonna Taylor) was appointed inter-
im police chief in Louisville.
                                                                          [courtesy LEX18]
   

johnathn.jpg Johnathan (sic) K. Morris, WM, 25, 5'8", 135 lbs, terroristic thrreatening (Bluegrass Crime Stoppers)

ryanmcox.jpg Wanted in Wichita (Kansas, not Wichita Falls, Texas): Ryan M. Cox, WM, 32, 6', 215 lbs, tattoo on l. arm, probation violation (gun possession); Marino N. Kirk, red-blooded BM, 20k, a/k/a Mariano Kirk, 5'3", 160 lbs, prob. viol. (aggravated family assault); Andrew W. Jenkins, WM, 38, 5'8", 170 lbs, probation violation (aggr.battery); Jeremy J. Sleeper, WM, 46, a/k/a Jeremy Sleepers, 5'10", 260 lbs, tattoo on right arm, felon with firearm (Sedgwick County Sheriff)

Borf 's weekly BONUS:        The latest in covid-        19 couture   ––––>        . . . The U.S. spent        $22,970  on  anti -        Hugo Chavez rock        songs while he led

Novak  Djokovic,  the only former winner in the lineup,
was  kicked  out  of  the  U.S. Open Tennis Tournament
after, in frustration over a lost point,  he slammed a ball
behind him  that hit a line judge in the throat,  knocking
her out. .  .  . The Houston Texans stayed in their locker
room during  the  National  Anthem  before the opening
National Football League game at Kansas City (boos in-
terrupted a  later  moment  of  silence  observed by both
teams), and the Miami Dolphins said they would stay in
in the locker room during the anthem and the "Black Na-
tional Anthem"  today  at  their opening game in Boston.
.  .  .  A giant baseball bat outside the Louisville Slugger
Museum and Factory was painted red by vandals.

kimbrust.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County, Texas, Sheriff): Saul Arrellano, 44, mobery; Kimberly Rust, 21, DUI; James Garrett, 18, DUI; Anna Reyes, 43, family assault; Tristan Wilhelm, 19, DUI; Victoria Morales, 23, marijuana; Braeden Swain, 19, marijuana; Samantha Malloy, 48, tresp.; Dillon Greer, 32, fraudulent driver ID; Monica Diaz, 30, mj; Jessyka Alvarado, 28, crim. mischief; Deven Lewellen, 25, marijuana, desecrating the flag

DISCUSSION GROUP:     Don't  forget!  Readers interested in in- tellectual dissection of important current events  are  invited to attend  the Weekly World News Round Table  at  the offices of Borf  Books outside Brownsville, Ken- tucky,   just  after  church  every  Sunday. Guest  speakers  lined up for meetings in the near future include Poseidon,  Biden and a few drunken sailors.   Incidentally, Austin, Texas,  was  not  the  only  place Trump boats got smashed.

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Molly Luz Dean-Polacheck wrote Sun 8/30/20 @ 8:58 CDT.

Thank you for putting my picture in the paper, Grandpa!

Natty Bumppo, Edtor, wrote Thurs 9/3/20 @15:40 CDT:

I know that "Mardi" means "Tuesday" in French or Polish,
 but I can't remember which.

Tested positive, 100,011; died, 3,350. . . .

A drive-by shooter.killed a 7-year-old girl attending a front  yard
birthday party in South Bend.
                                                        [courtesy Columbus Republic]

             

Tested positive, 55,500; died, 1,028. . . .

Cheapside Park in Lexington, once the site of slave auctions,
was renamed Henry A.Tandy Park,  after  a  freed slave  who
became a construction entrepreneur.
                                                                      [courtesy LEX18]

The black bear is classified as the major animal predator of
Kentucky, and the coyote, of Indiana;  but a black bear spot-
ted near Prospect, Kentucky, was considered a threat to Indi-
ana's Clark County,  just an Ohio River's swim away  (in Ha-
waii it's domestic cats).
                                                  [courtesy Columbus Republic]

         

robstewt.jpg Lexington's most wanted, Rob Stewart, 37, 6'2", 165 lbs, meth, smack, paraphernalia (Bluegrass Crime Stoppers)

"I now wish I had lived vicariously through someone else and       let someone else get my kicks for me."                                                                             – Leonard Simon

ivelasqu.jpg Arrested in Abilene (Texas, not Kansas) (Abiliene Crime Stoppers): Iziah Jo Velasquez, HM, 24, 5'8", 175 lbs, child sexual assault; Rodney Jermaine Briley, BM, 47, 5' 7", 175 lbs, assault of pub. svt.; Douglas Jerome Sims, BM, 48, 5'6", 190 lbs, aggravated robbery; Albert Willis Feagan, BM, 42, 5'6", 190 lbs, aggravated assault; John Gabriel Flores, HM, 22, 5'5", 135 lbs, indedency w/a child

ignaciow.jpg Wichita Falls' Criminal Cathedral Choir (SpotCrime): Ignacio Rosales, 38, leader, bond cancellation (possession); Shomeka R. Smith, 39, surety off bond (forgery); James A. Ivory, 22, bond forfeiture (family assault); Wendy Lynn Martin, 45, forgery; Kelly Kea, 59, surety off bond (controlled substance)

A 5-year-old girl lying in her bed in Columbus, Ohio, was shot in the
back by someone firing into her residence from outside. .  .  .  A post-
humous  "tweet"  by actor  Chadwick  Boseman  announcing his own
death was "liked" 5.9 million times on Tweeter Twitter  and retwitted
retweeted 2.9 million times, both records. . . . Labor demonstrators e-
rected  a  guillotine  at the front door of Jeff Bezos' mansion in Wash-
ington, D.C.  .  .  .  An Oregon archer shot a bull elk that gored him to
death when he tracked it down the next day. . . . Atheists  and  agnost-
ics  sleep sounder than Catholics and Baptists,  according to a  Baylor
Religion Survey study.
                                           [courtesy Harper's, LEX18, NBC.com, AP]

casehard.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County, Texas, Sheriff): Case Hardin, 26, drunk; Brittany Zunino, 27, criminal trespass; Rebecca Campbell, 26, no ins.; Martha Torres, 39, family assault; Jalisa Serenil, 29, theft; Janell Briones, 43, parole vi.; Vanessa Gonzales, 22, mj.; Matthew Florie, 24, family assault

The race horse Authentic won the146th Kentucky Derby  in a time of 4 months,
3 days, 2 minutes, and 0.61 of a second. . . . President Trump asked the Big Ten
to resume college football this fall. . . .                George Hauck, 100

Many Kentuckians did not get to see the Kentucky Derby.   Both the grandstand
and the infield were closed to spectators on account of covid-19,  and  television
was  touchy.  It was telecast by NBC  (the "National" "Broadcasting" Company),
but the two NBC channels near your editor's home  –  Channel  4,  in  Nashville,
Tennessee, 95 miles away,  and Channel 41.1,  in Bowling Green, Kentucky,  25
miles away – have not been received reliably since television reception was "im-
proved" by going "digital" a few years ago; and they were not coming in on Der-
by Day.  So we went to a friend's house in Silent Grove,  for  satellite  reception.
He had NBC,  but not Kentucky Derby NBC.  So he and I went to his next-door
neighbor's house, and they were getting Channel 4; and we saw the Derby – and
Bob Baffert, too.

laronxav.jpg Wanted in Waco; Arrested in Abilene (Texas, not Kansas); Wanted in Wichita (Kansas, not Wichita Falls, Texas): Laron D. Long, BM, 28, 5'6", 125 lbs, credit card abuse; Xavier Dale Powell, BM, 23, 6', 145 lbs, probation violation (aggravated assault); Priscilla Marie Martinez, HF, 32, 5'6", 145 lbs, injury to a child; Loretta Dawn Sanders, WF, 38, 5'7", 165 lbs, prob viol (forgery); Adam Michael Marcellus, WM, 35, 6', 190 lbs, prob vi (rude choking) (City of Waco, Abilene Crime Stoppers, Sedgwick County (Kas.) Sheriff)

hutchens.jpg Also wanted in Wichita (Kansas, not Wichita Falls, Texas): Robert E. Hutchens, BM, 42, 6'5", 260 lbs, tattoos, barbed wire on l. arm, "J Dubb" on left forearm, Nike Swoosh r. arm, cross-hairs w/head in middle on chest, probation violation (theft, hallucinogens, evading arrest), gamg mbr.; Eli Hinman Johnson, 28, 5'3", 175 lbs, tattoos "Amani" on neck, "Never smile" on belly, "Life & death" on right forearm, probation violation (opiates); Robert Lee Dearman, WM, 32, 5'10", 170 lbs, pro. viol. (burglary); Cody A. Stone, WM, 24, 5'11", 150 lbs, probation viol. (theft); Prince N. Alcaraz, BM, 27, 5'7", 160 lbs, tattoos, neck & right arm, theft, aggr. battery, misspelling of prison name; Philip Jason Harriger, WM, 33, 5'9", 130 lbs, pro. viol. (opiates) (Sedgwick County Sheriff)

DISCUSSION GROUP:     Don't  forget!  Readers interested in intellectual dissection of important current events are invited to attend  the  Weekly World News Round Table  at the offices  of Borf Books  out- side Brownsville,  Kentucky,  just after church every Sunday. Guest  speakers  lined up for meetings in the  near  future  in- clude Ginger Zee.

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