Mike Argento, a York native and graduate of York Suburban Area High School and Penn State, first came to the York Daily Record in 1983. He even had gray hair back then. After stints covering everything from cops to city hall to state government to the environment, he began writing a column for the paper, three times a week, in 1989. His column can be about anything and so is his blog, which encompasses life in York County and beyond. And, for the record, as he told his wife the other night, he wishes people would stop asking him, 'What's wrong with you?' He really doesn't know. Joe Mirasola, who has operated a music and camera store on West Philadelphia Street for more than four decades, is retiring, sort of.
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Continue reading Goodbye, sort of, to a York institution..
February 2006 Archives
The U.S. Men's Curling team beat England Friday to secure the bronze medal. Curling is truly the sport of kings.
Little known fact: There's a curling tradition called broomstacking. What it is is the competitors, after a match, stack their brooms and enjoy beverages. I'm told the tradition is adhered to even in international competition.
Just one more note: We need ESPN to pick up curling as a regular part of its programming. Monday Night Curling has a ring to it...
This prof at UCLA believes we are entering a new Middle Ages. Interesting stuff...
I guess this means the avian flu is the new plague.
Talk about a fishing story.
Check this one out.
TV ads. Gotta love them and what they say about us as humans.
Actually, they say some scary things.
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Continue reading Side effects may include a drop in intelligence....
By MIKE
ARGENTO
The Winter Olympics are tough to watch because, let’s face it, we just don’t get a lot of those sports because they’re too Nordic or something.
Figure skating? Too much crying. Skiing? Luge? Bobsledding? Be honest, you only watch it for the wrecks, like NASCAR. Biathlon? Not enough shooting.
Continue reading Ferrets plus pants equals hours of entertainment.
By MIKE
ARGENTO
We now join the White House press briefing, in progress ... .
PRESS SECRETARY SCOTT McCLELLAN: and, further, the president wasn’t specifically speaking about monkey-men, but was referring to any chimp-human hybrid. Moving on ... .
QUESTION: Scott, let’s return to the reports that Vice President Dick Cheney shot a man while hunting. Why did the vice president wait so long to report the shooting?
Continue reading Press secretary explains oh so fully.
By MIKE
ARGENTO
NEWS ITEM: Violent protests erupted around the world as Muslims reacted violently to the dissemination of a Danish newspaper cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammed. The cartoon appeared in the small newspaper last September and was circulated in the Muslim world only recently.
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Rioting broke out around the world as dog owners reacted violently to what they called a demeaning and blasphemous “Marmaduke� cartoon that appeared in newspapers this week.
Dog owners and radical fringes of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals stormed several Petcos and huge demonstrations at the Westminster Dog Show turned violent when a former best-of-show winning Pomeranian attacked several bystanders, resulting in numerous ankle wounds and one ruined Nike sneaker.
Continue reading Protesters Marmaduke it out in the streets.
By MIKE
ARGENTO
Among the lengthy catalog of the great tragedies to arise from Hurricane Katrina is one that pales in comparison to the monumental human suffering left in the wake of the flood waters.
In the grand scheme of things — particularly when you’re talking about the catastrophic losses suffered by thousands of people — it may not even be on the map.
Continue reading Local musicians help bring sunshine to Sunpie.
Nope, that not's a misspelling. The Stealers stole the game, with the help of refs who appear to be suffering from ophthmalogical maladies.
Anyway, congrats Steeler fans. Your team didn't want to lose as bad as the other one -- what was its name?
On the whole, a sloppy game and fairly dull, except for a couple of big plays and a couple of blown calls by the refs. Even the commercials were lackluster. OK, the Leonard Nimoy one was pretty good. You can't go wrong with Spock.
Oh, and the one with the monkeys. You can't go wrong with monkeys, either.
By MIKE
ARGENTO
You have to give President Dubya credit for having the courage to take on one of the most pressing issues facing humankind.
Terrorism, right?
Continue reading No monkey-men, just medical cures.
Saw this joke in a different form, so I adapted it. Enjoy.
So, the folks at Medicare were looking to get some publicity related to the Super Bowl so they used the computer dedicated to administering the new Medicare prescription drug plan to predicting the outcome of the big game. The computer crunched the numbers and came up with the following prediction:
The New Orleans Saints will beat the Boston Red Sox, 3,786,978.4789 to #$%(*&@^^.
