Friday Headlines – 1/17/14

A few things happened in the last week or so. In tech news, Google laid out 3.2 billion dollars to buy Nest, a company best known for thermostats that resemble Hal 9000. Some are worried that people using Bing may suddenly find their houses freezing them out, but the risk is mitigated by the fact… Read more

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Friday Headlines – 7/26/13

Here’s hoping these headlines don’t become even more infrequent. I say this because a squirrel was found near Los Angeles with the bubonic plague. The real tragedy, of course, is who will make the movie about the bubonic plague if everyone in Hollywood is killed off by it? In happier news, the royal parents decided… Read more

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Friday Headlines – 6/14/13

Who doesn’t love some news updates on Flag Day? An AP report delved into Al Quaida documents and discovered that they have a lot of the same mundane office tasks us non-terrorists deal with, including filing expense reports. Only, instead of making strip clubs sound like steakhouses, they make pork loins sound like plastic explosives.… Read more

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Friday Headlines – 5/23/13

Now that SNL has gone on summer hiatus, I guess you’ll have to rely on me for your weekend update-type news hits. There are several scandal-type things happening in Washington, but the one most Republicans seem to be trying extra hard to make stick is the IRS profiling of Tea Party groups looking for tax-exempt… Read more

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Friday Headlines – 3/29/13

A few quick hit headlines while I wait for the baby to wake up and discuss obscure Eastern philosophies. A couple in Utah brought two kids along for a bank robbery, proving how hard it is to find good babysitters these days. A nun in Ohio voted twice in a recent election. I guess the… Read more

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Friday Headlines – 3/8/13

A few headlines to get you to the weekend. A police dog in Massachusetts accidentally fired a gun he found in a snowbank during a search last week. The dog has been signed by Death Row records and plans to start beef with Snoopy. Facebook announced that the social network would be rolling out a new design. In… Read more

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Friday Headlines – 2/22/13

Catching up from last week, here are some headlines from the past fortnight.  In personal news, I was sent to a seminar in which I learned how to better manage co-workers from the millennial generation. It was nice to be recognized as a leader in the agency, but it was much harder to realize I… Read more

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No News is Good Novosti

Been a busy week in the real world, so no headlines today. Will try to pick up with our regularly scheduled programming next week. There is one story that caught my eye early in the week. Apparently, a judge in Russia fell asleep during a fraud trial and was subsequently fired from his post. Now,… Read more

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Friday Headlines – 2/1/13

Here’s your weekly news fix heading into the weekend. San Francisco’s animal control agency has found a second life for discarded newspapers, partnering with a local library to gather copies and use them to line the cages in their kennel. So, score one for print. Nobody wants a stray dog crapping on their iPhone. In… Read more

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Friday Headlines – 1/25/13

Seth didn’t use any of my jokes last week, but I thought I’d keep at it, anyway. It was a short week, so this will go quickly. Due to some quirks in the calendar, President Obama became the first president since FDR to get sworn in to office four different times. You do have to… Read more

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