CAPTION: A model wears a creation by Vietnamese fashion designer Tran Duy Ngu during Vietnam Collection Grand Prix 2007 in Hanoi, Vietnam, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007.
I’m thinking this girl would be very popular on the playground .

WCBU newsie Jonathan Ahl swears up and down that he wasn’t the troll who started spouting gibberish in the chat room on Tuesday. For those who missed the post, I banned the troll who was doing it, only to discover the the troll was connected to the same wireless network inside Peoria City Hall. I [...]

I was going to try liveblogging tonight’s city council meeting from the chat room. The trouble was that as soon as I started to post, some knucklehead was starting posting nonsense letters.
So, I went to my control panel and made of use the chat room’s “Ban this IP address” feature. It worked. But it worked [...]

… and will be enough of that until next year. If you want, you can use the Theme Switcher in the sidebar to pick a pirate-like theme. Of course, this is when I link to this post about my favorite Peoria pirates.
captain jinks,salty sam,week,albatross,talk like a pirate day

I wouldn’t have believed it were it not for the photographic proof. Before the start of Tuesday’s Peoria Chiefs game, Mayor Jim Ardis made a brief announcement. City Council members Barbara Van Auken, Eric Turner and George Jacob were there in support. Oh, yeah, Cub’s legend Ryne Sandberg was there, too. He’s the one on [...]

Myself, I think the police did the right thing by handcuffing and hauling away a Texas couple who had the audacity to wear anti-Bush t-shirts to an appearance by the Decider in Chief. I mean, Good Lord, what’s next? Someone actually shouting something at him. The man gets confused enough even though he’s usually only [...]

So much for the myth about the British having ANY sense of humor
Forklift driver David Pratt was told by street wardens in Peterborough he could cause offence or incite violence.The slogan on the garment read: “Don’t piss me off! I am running out of places to hide the bodies.
“Peterborough City Council said using insulting or [...]

I don’t blame Kirstie Alley for being annoyed. I know I’d be POed if paparazzi followed me around taking pics every time I walked out of a restaurant or a no-tell motel room with a beautiful actress. This is one reason I have a strict polity to avoid any activity that might lead to fame [...]

‘Now you will learn of the power of the Dark Side!’
Well, not after Aug. 31, when Carl Rove will retire. No word on when the Republic will be restored. I’m guessing sometime in early January 2009. Big ceremony planned, I hear.

Ummmm … What did you think this article was about?
Turns out, even beheaded rattlesnakes can be dangerous. That’s what 53-year-old Danny Anderson learned as he was feeding his horses Monday night, when a 5-foot rattler slithered onto his central Washington property, about 50 miles southeast of Yakima.
Anderson and his 27-year-old son, Benjamin, pinned the snake [...]

Boy, I feel safer already:
Pop singer Lily Allen, daughter of BBC America “Robin Hood” star Keith, had her visa revoked on Sunday.
The “Smile” singer had arrived stateside for a string of dates when she was stopped by immigration officials at LAX airport. Allen was questioned by authorities.
“Subsequent to this meeting, the authorities decided to revoke [...]

So, I’m driving to work behind a blue Ford pick-up truck with an NRA sticker in the window.
And an Obama ‘08 sticker.
Either the guy is a liberal who like to hunt. Or he’s a gun nut who really is ticked off about the war.