Tested positive, 331,725; died, 4,491.
                                                            [courtesy N.Y. Times]

A dozen terrified abandoned dogs, mostly chihuahuas, were
rescued from a drainage ditch in Delaware County. . . .

A high school in South Bend sent a black student home for
wearing a T-shirt saying "I hope I don't get killed for being
black today," and the American Civil Liberties Union sued
the school's principal and assistant principal. . . .

cenindcs.jpg WANTED Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana, up to $1,000 reward, for information leading to the arrest of any suspect on this poster, November 02, 2020, Dionta Bonner, robbery; Jose Velazquez, burglary; Britanie Nickless, robbery; Terrell Washington, theft; Miguel Atenco, child molest; Katie Stone, theft; Timothy Conover, domestic battery; Tavaress Mahone, neglect of a dependent; Raymon Hernandez, forgery; Amber Borth, dealing cocaine; Cedric Fields, child molest; Pedro Amaya, domestic battery

Three young men killed in a fiery one-vehicle crash in  Lo-
gansport were so badly mangled that DNA tests were need-
ed to idenitfy them.
                                               [courtesy Columbus Republic]

A woman lay down in front of a moving car in Lexington in
what officials ruled a suicide.
                                                                [courtesy LEX18]
         

Lexington's most wanted: Cleveland Jones, BM, 65, 5'10", 250 lbs, robbery (Bluegrass Crime Stoppers); chrisaut.jpg Wanted inh Waco (Texas): Christopher Michael          Miles, WM, 28, 5'8", 180 lbs, auto theft (City of Waco)

The owner of a chicken wings eatery in London, Ky., cried
"fowl" at the shutdown orders and kept his place open. . . .

A federal judge ruled for the state attorney general  against
the governor's attempt to shut down religious schools along
with public in the pandemic.
                                                                                  [LEX18]

Dog of the week:  poodle  It is disputed whether the poodle de- scends from the German  water  dog or the French Barbet.  It is said to be the  second  smartest  dog,  after  the border  collie.  There are three types: standard, miniature, and toy.

A first baby girl was born to a couple in Lakeview,  Michigan,  with  14
sons  (her eldest brother is 28).. . . Taylor Swift was named "artist of the
year" the third year in a row by American Music Awards. . . . Two coun-
ties in Oregon adopted a bill for secession to Idaho and its "conservative
governance." . . .  Charles Koch repented. . . . A sinkhole swallowed an
SUV in the Queens, New York City. . . . Duchess Meghan had a miscar-
riage. . . . The Governor of Colorado and his "first gentleman" both test-
ed positive.
                                                               [courtesy Harper's, LEX18, AP]

lesterol.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County, Texas,Sheriff): Lester Rollison, 65, crim. tresp.; Sondra Tapia, 38, assault; Jonathan Oshunkentan, 29, ch. inj.; Monica Duran, 41, mobery; Andrew Dewey, 31, crim. tresp.; Belinda Ramon, 31, DUI; D'Angelo Martinez, 20, offensive gesture; Ariel Castillo, 29, tampering w/recs

Sarah Fuller, with her college soccer season over, joined
the Vanderbilt University football team as a place kicker.
.  .  .  Ohio State University canceled yesterday's football
game at Illinois after the head coach tested positive.

Craig Klugman wrote Sun 11/15/20 @11:31 EST:

Are you the staff member with Covid?  Hope you're OK.

Thanks.  It's our secretary.  But on account of her,  we got tes-
ted  (and didn't get our "negative" result for five days,  but we
quarantined ourself nonetheless).    – Editor


Anthony Dean wrote Weds 11/18/20 @11:09 CST:

"Anastasio" Ocasio-Cortez?  Funny way to spell Alexandria.

That's why they call her "AOC."    – Ed.

markange.jpg Arrested in Abilene (Texas, not Kansas): Mark Angel Ramos, HM, 25, 5'10", 180 lbs, injury to child x2; Samantha Horton, WF, 25, 5'7", 135 lbs, burglary; Malachi Benjamin Jones, BM, 18, 6'0", 140 lbs, aggravated robbery (Abilene Cirme Stoppeers)

Tested positive, 291,838, including a poll  worker in Bartholomew
County; died, 6,878.
                                     [courtesy N.Y. Times, Columbus Republic]

A federal judge halted the December 8 execution  in  Terre Haute
of the first woman on U.S.death row in six decades, after her law-
yers caught the virus visiting her in prison in Texas. . . .

A police dog attacked a policeman making an arrest in Gary, and
the policeman shot the dog.
                                                        [courtesy Columbus Republic]

derrickw.jpg South Bend's most wanted: Derrick Fowler, BM, 5'6", 200 lbs, robbery injury, theft (wanted also in Elkhart) (Michiana Crime Stoppers)

All jury trials were postponed to February on account of the co-
ronavirus. . . .

A Lexington ice cream parlor introduced a flavor called Kamala
Pecan, after the Vice President-elect.
                                                                           [courtesy LEX18]

Quotations of the weak:
                                        ""
                                            [choose one ^ – it's redundant]    – Tom Gjelten, National Public Radio

        "Fusionism."
                               – Nicholas Lehmann, staff writer for the New Yorker

                                   ["Fusion" will do,   despite the politial movement politicians  and journal-
                                      ists like to call  "fusionism."  Reminds me of the time in my 11th grade
                                      English class, about the time "fusionism" was coined.  We were writing
                                      essays in class,  and we held up our hand and asked the teacher:  "What
                                      is the noun to describe a 'confidential' state?  'Confidentiality,' or 'confi-
                                      dentialness'?"

                                      The old woman  (and  old  maid  –  she shacked up  with the woman who
                                      taught 12th grade English, also never married) smacked her lips and paus-
                                      ed.  "Try  'confidence',"  she said, finally.  We did, and it worked.    – Editor]

Dog of the week:    fox terrier  The word "terrier"  comes from "terra,"  Latin for "land."   And, "fox"? Well, "fox." Terriers are no closer to foxes genealogical- ly than other dogs, but they like the name.

smooth fox terriers

wire fox terrier

syandres.jpg Wanted in Wichita (Kansas, not Wichita Falls, Texas): Syandrres Caaroll, BM, 26, 5'7", 155 lbs, escape, probation viol.; Amanda Dawn Stock,WF, 38, 5', 156 lbs, tattoos, both arms, felon with firearm, interference; Gary Dwayne Sims, WM, 40, 5'10", 190 lbs, tattoos both hands, right arm, stalking despie prot. order; left: Michael Anthony Bezeleski, WM, 35, 5'5", 140 lbs, probation violatio (burglary & theft); right, Eric Maurice Christopher Currie, a/k/a Eric Corrie, BM, 33, 5'9", 140 lbs, tattoos, right arm "Erionna," "Serenity," left wrist & arm "My Angel," "Maique", probation violation (felon using firearms) (Sedgwick County Sheriff)

A TV news anchor in Milwaukee,Wisconsin, was suspended for asking
(on Twitter) why 2020 took Alex Trebek and not Mitch McConnell. . . .
The Swiss tax exemption for bribes was eliminated. . . .  A Georgia wo-
man who told Chick-fil-A employees she was an FBI agent  and  threat-
ened them with arrest  if they didn’t serve her a free meal  was  charged
with impersonating a public officer . .  . You can vote for Fu Zai,  Xiao
Qi Ji, Xing Fu or Zai Zai for the name of a 3-month-old panda boy cub
at the Smithsonian National Zoo. . . . Kyle Rittenhouse admitted he us-
ed federal stimulus money to buy the gun he used to kill two protesters
in Kenosha, Wisconsin. . . .  My Pillow Inc. CEO Mike Lindell  and ac-
tor Ricky Schroder were said to have raised the $2 million cash bail for
Rittenhouse. . . .  Both Donald Trump's and Rudolph Giulani's sons test-
ed positive. . . .The mayor of Lincoln County, Tennessee, said he would
not issue a face mask mandate until the "Holy Spirit" moved him to.

                                                                 [courtesy Harper's, LEX18, AP]

Former football coach Lou Holtz tested positive. . . .
Answer to last week's  sports   quiz:  Mia  Hamm    is
the wife of Nomar Garciaparro.

skylaros.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County, Texas, Sheriff): Skylar Oswalt, 30, ctrl. subst.; Alexis Galvan, 18, theft; Tracy Hovorak,18, U.S. marshal hold; Clara Chapa, 19, resisting arrest; Ashley Holcomb, 28i, burglary; Sarah Ash, 38, theft; Juan Alvaarez, 33, evading

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 hoodlions.

lifedarl.jpg She wanted an I-Pad Eye Pad Life Saver Dude: Sorrty, little darlin', that's what it means these days

Steve Yates wrote Sun 11/8/20 @09:38 CDT:

Now we know Melissa Dundis, but has she Dundat?

Tested positive, 247,466; died, 8,327.
                                                                [courtesy N.Y. Times]

A deer crashed through a window into a classroom at a middle
school in Fort Wayne  (only  two  teachers  were  inside  at the
time).
                                                    [courtesy Columbus Republic]

kyldavid.jpg wanted in noblesville: Kyle David Joe Sharp, WM, failure to return to jail; Kathryn Anne Hunter, burglary,robbery; Jonathan Daivd Fahey,controlled substance; Keli Marie Couch, coke; Eli glenn Freean, domestic battery, Amish abandon; Nicholas Glen Hardisty,domestic battery (by the Hamiltn County Sheriff,SpotCrime)

A Louisville chicken eatery offered free food and drink  to  pa-
trons surrendering their MAGA caps. . . .

Kentucky's new attorney general was one of ten state attorneys
general to join President Trump's legal challenge to Pennsylva-
nia mail-in ballots.
                                                                          [courtesy LEX18]
   

brownjon.jpg Lexington's most wanted John Michael Brown bald BM 38 5'9" 160 lbs robbery Bluegrass CS

casselbr.jpg Wanted in Wichita (Kansas, not Wichita Falls, Texas): Matthew Hendrix, BM, 37, 5'9", 240 lbs, probation violation (opiates); Christopher Casselberry, BM, 32, 6'0", 160 lbs, opiates; Jamie Kadrmas Cook, WF, 60, 5'2", 234 lbs, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon; Bobby Daniel Vinson, BM, 26, 5'10", 150 lbs, aggr. domestic battery (Sedgwick County Sheriff)

A first baby girl was born to a couple in Lakeview,  Michigan,  with 14
sons (her eldest brother is 28).. . . Donald Trump won the highest share
of black, Latino and Asian-American votes for a  Republican  President
since 1960 . . . The mining company Adani changed its name to Bravas,
a Latin word it thought meant "courageous" ("brave") but means "crook-
ed," "deformed" or "mercenary or assassin." . . .  Three Yellowstone Na-
tional Park visitors were banned for three years for cooking chicken in a
hot spring. . . . The West Point military academy agreed to make littler u-
niforms for female cadets. .  .  . Anastasio  Ocasio-Cortez,  re-elected  to
Congress, showed a paucity of ambition for higher office. . . . A gay man
defeated a Proud Boys leader in a Hawaii election for state representative.
.  .  .  The Oxford dictionaries revised their definitions of "man" and "wo-
man." . . .  Britney Spears lost her court case to end her father's conserva-
torship of her assets. . .  .  North Korea was reported to be training dolph-
ins for naval opeerations.
                                                                   [courtesy Harper's, LEX18, AP]

    the last week included  

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, Kentuck- y,  just after church every Sunday.    Guest speakers lined up for meetings  in the near future include JoAnn and Albanie Falletta.

The sports:     National League baseball's Miami     Marlins hired a woman,  Kim  Ng,     to be its general manager. . . . Sports quiz:     Which U.S. soccer star  is  married     to baseball star Nomar Garciaparra?

1.  Brandi Chastain? 2.  Hope Solo? 3.  Mia Hamm? 4.  Abby Wambach? 5.  Megan Rapinoe? ––>

lifecuri.jpg Bad news it's curiosity Life Saver Dude: It's a killer

Rollie Renfrow wrote Sun 11/1/20 @13:28 CST:

"GET THESE
  TABLOID HEADLINES OUT OF MY LIFE AND FUCK OFF!"

Those were the right words, but they bore quotation marks and were not
in the subject line; so we maintained his subscription.  – Hank T. Hebhoe,
publisher


Jane Etta Darrig wrote Tues 11/3/20 @9:23 CST:

How was the pig after the double-fatality collision in Cass County,
Indiana?

They didn't say.  Not even the Logansport Pharos-Tribune said.    – Editor

diantabo.jpg Indianapolis' most wanted (Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana): Dionta Bonner, robbery; Jose Vesazquez, burglary; Brittanie Nickless, robbery; Terrell Washington, theft;, Miguel Atemco, child molest; Katie Stone, theft; Timothy Conover,domestic battery; Tavaress Mahone, nglect of dependent; Raymon Hernandez, forgery; Amber Borth, dealing cocaine; Cedric Fields, child molest; Pedro Amaya, domestic battery (Central Indiana Crime Stoppers)

Tested positive, 208,243; died, 4,911.
                                                               [courtesy N.Y. Times]

Republican ex-Congressman Todd Rokita, elected state attor-
ney general, tested positive.
                                                  [courtesy Columbus Republic]

Tested positive, 122,021; died, 2,069.
                                                                [courtesy N.Y. Times]

Perry  County  was  named  after the War of 1812  naval  hero
Oliver Hazard Perry.  The county seat, Hazard, was named af-
ter Oliver Hazard Perry.
                                                                                [Wikipedia]

The French bulldog Wilbur Beast was elected mayor of Rab-
bit Hash with 13,143 votes,  unseating  incumbent  Brynneth
Pawltro.  Jack Rabbit the beagle and Poppy the golden retrie-
ver  finished 2nd and 3rd,  respectively.

                                                                        [courtesy WLW]

daricaly.jpg Lexington's most wanted: Darica S. Lynem, BF, 42, 5'2", 200 lbs, murder, robbery, theft (Bluegrass Crime Stoppers)

toylanwr.jpg Wanted in Wichita (Kansas, not Wichita Falls, Texas): Toylan Wright, BM, 27, 5'11", 200 lbs, family strangulation; Sylvester A. Quintana, HM, 59, 6', 245 lbs, upside down ears, missing thumb, attmpt. murder; Ernesto A. Diaz-Marquez, HM, 60, 5'11", 170 lbs, domestic battery; Gerraldy Chavez, HF, 24, 4'11", 120 lbs, prob. viol. (burglary); Samuel Seiber, WM, 36, 6'1", 180 lbs, prob. vi. (burglary) (City of Waco, Sedgwick County (Kansas) Sheriff)

Neither Indiana nor Kentucky got an entrant in the "ten creepiest small
towns in America"  (but West Virginia did). .  .  . Prince William tested
positive. .  .  .  A humpback whale capsized a  kayak  near Avila Beach,
California  (the two women on board survived).  .  .  .  Gravestones in a
Jewish cemetery in Grand Rapids,Michigan,  were defaced with  T R U
M P and M A G A painted on them in red. . . . An estimated 3 billion an-
imals were killed or displaced by wildfires in Australia  in  the  last  two
years (and we thought it was tough in California, even in Colorado). . . .
A policeman in Neptune City,  New Jersey,  "sexted" an 18-year-old wo-
man  he'd arrested earlier in the day for drug and traffic violations,  call-
ing her "cute." .  .  . Mississippi voters approved a new state flag center-
ed with a magnolia instead of the Confederate battle emblem. . . . A wo?-
man? "trans," "Sarah McBride," was elected state senator in Delaware....
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was re-elected to Congress. . . . Madison Caw-
thorn, 25, was elected to Congress  in North Carolina as the youngest ev-
er except for William Charles Cole Claiborne of Tennessee, 22 years old
in1797 but seated despite the constitutional age requirement of 25 (Alex-
andria Ocasio-Cortez, the previous legitimate youngest and now re-elect-
ed, was 29 when elected to her first term). . . . Joe  Biden  seems  to have
been elected President of the U.S.
                                                                [courtesy Harper's, LEX18, AP]

amulfoho.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County, Texas, Sheriff): Amulfo Hodega, 38, DUIx2; Claudine Jones, 49, DUI; Raquel Rios, 36, family assault; Natalie Burgins, 19, mobery; Guadalupe Perez, 27, DUI; Rebekah Dill, 28, DUI; Amber Moutry, 34, harboring a fugitive; Manuel Tanguma, 50, crim. trespass

John Elway tested positive.

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Anthony Dean wrote Sun 10/25/20 @10:26 CDT:

The pope did not endorse same sex marriage, only same
sex civil unions.   Same sex couples still will not be mar-
ried in the Catholic Church.

"Civil union"?  Funny way to spell marriage.    – Editor

J. Ewing wrote Sun 10/25/20 @14:20 EDT:

Shouldn't those members of the politically correct/woke
protest the name of   the  Los  Angeles  (née  Brooklyn)
Dodgers as it glorifies both draft and child support dod-
gers?  

Or maybe the heirs of Charles Dickens for appropriating
the name "Artful Dodger" (copyright infringement)?  

And where is the statue (or art work) that needs to be re-
moved to rectify this situation?

Tested positive, 181,837; died, 4,332.
                                                                [courtesy N.Y. Times]

The annual trick-or-treating at the Governor's mansion was can-
celed this year on account of the pandemic. . . .

Police shot and killed a naked man wielding a knife in the hall
of an apartment building in Lawrenceburg. . . .

A pickup truck collided with a large pig on a road near Logans-
port and was propelled into a head-on collision with an SUV in
which both drivers died.
                                                     [courtesy Columbus Republic]

alyssamo.jpg South Bend's most wanted: Robin Hardy, WM, 5'7", 170 lbs, meth; Miguel Perez, HM, 5'3", 115 lbs, coke; Alyssa Moreland, WF, 5'5", 160 lbs, robbery; Arthur Craig, BM, 5'5", 160 lbs, robbery; Arthur Craig, BM, 5'6", 225 lbs, coke; Justin Bland, WM, 5'10", 150 lbs, felon w/handgun, paraphernalia (Michiana Crime Stoppers)

birtcher.jpg James Edward Birtcher III, WM, 19, 6'2", 160 lbs, murder; Shelly Varin, WF, theft, forgery; Wanted in Wichita: Boualphet Anousone a/k/a Alphabet Soupcon, Asian male, 38, 5'9", 170 lbs, tattoos left shoulder, arm & hand, probation violation (DUIx3); Wanted in Waco, Claudio Alberto Lara, HM, 21, 6'1", 188 lbs, failure to register

A Catholic priest suspended for calling Black Lives Matter or-
ganizers maggots and parasites was restored to the ministry in
Marion.
                                                         [courtesy Indianapolis Star]

Quotations of the Wheat (Simon said):     "I was speaking to an old buddy from Butler County, who      obviously did not grow up a  rich  white  boy.   Him  said,      'Wheat, Wheat, you can't always buy the good stuff.'     "And  me  said,  'Poor white trash,  if it ain't the good stuff,      don't buy it.   Aldo  Gucci,  1934:  "The bitterness of poor      quality lasts far longer than the sweetness of a low price".' "                                                                        – Leonard Simon

coleaqua.jpg Arrested in Abilene (Texas, not Kansas): José Martinez Jr., HM, 45, 5'10", 180 lbs, meth; Mattheew Clayton Starr, WM, 22, 5'8", 155 lbs, burglary, LSD; Wanted in Wichita (Kanwsas, not Wichita Falls, Texas): Teresa Ann Hall, BF, 29,, 5'6", 132 lbs, aggr. assault, burglary; Serena Nicole Laqua, WF, 25, 5'5", 180 lbs (Yorkshire hog), probation viol. (opiates); Alicia Rowshawn Tucker, BF, 47, 5'6", 15i0 lbs, tattoos l. shldr, rt wrist, prob. vi. (opiates) (Abilene Crime Stoppers, Sedgwick County Kas. Sheriff)

olgaflor.jpg Locked up in San Agelo (by the Tom Green County, Texas,Sheriff): Julian Flores, 55, drunk; Olga Lynn, 47, DUI; Renalyn Viray, 21, burglary; Dalton Briley,  20, DUI, Charity Jones, 21, marijuana; Linda Westbrook, 39, assault; Mariah Kincaid, 28, card abuse; Marcella Herrera, 38, mj.

It's a bit of a toss-up.  The favorite versions of the song "Jimmie
Brown the Newsboy"  seem to be Flatt & Scruggs'  and Norman
Blake's.  Although it's known as a Carter family song,  it's based
on an 1875 composition by  William "Shakespeare" Hays  called
"Jimmie Brown the Paper Boy," revised and retitled by A. P. Car-
ter in 1929.  The main verse in the song is:

I sell the morning paper, sir; my name is Jimmie Brown;
Everybody knows me:  I'm the newsboy of the town.

But only one recording we've found bears the  exact  words  of
that verse (Peter Rowan's).

In most versions it's the first verse; but in the Carter family's re-
cording  (and Carl Smith's)  it's the  third,  and the Carter family
sings:

. . . 'Most everybody knows I am the newsboy of the town.

Lester Flatt, Bill Monroe, Dixie Michelle and Blueberry Hill sing:

. . . Everybody knows that I'm the newsboy of the town.

(and you can see and hear Earl Scruggs playing guitar on the
 Flatt & Scruggs version!).

Lonesome Prairie sings:

. . . 'Most everybody knows that I'm the newsboy of the town.

Mac Wiseman sings:

. . . Everybody knows I am the newsboy of the town.

Carl Smith sings:

. . . Everybody knows I am the newsboy of this town.

Norman Blake sings:

. . . Everybody knows me, sir, the newsboy of the town.

George Hamilton IV sings:

. . . Everybody knows that I'm the best newsboy in town.

Skeeter Davis sings it in third person ("that he's").

What the fuck is G5?

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 the revelers at Altamont.