Our Culture: March 2007 Archives

The Associated Press reports:

"SAN DIEGO - Two executives at a company that once helped build a fence to keep illegal immigrants from crossing the Mexican border were sentenced Wednesday to six months of home confinement for hiring undocumented workers.

"Mel Kay, founder, chairman and president of Golden State Fence Co., and manager Michael McLaughlin had pleaded guilty in federal court to knowingly hiring illegal aliens. U.S. District Judge Barry Ted Moskowitz ordered each to serve 1,040 hours of community service and spend three years on probation."

Yet another instance of life imitating a David Letterman joke.

The opening sentence of a story from the Lodi, Calif., News-Sentinal:

A jazz musician was injured Friday after jumping from a burning motor home driven by a one-time roller skating stripper from Lodi.

I smell Pulitzer!

Remember last month when the city of Boston was pretty much shut down because some Cartoon Network people put Lite Birghts up around the city?

Well, they're at it again. The city, not the Cartoon Network.

According to news reports, the police in Boston closed a road in the financal district after receiving a report of a suspicious device by the road. The bomb squad responded and blew it up.

It turned out to be a traffic counter placed by the road by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.

Boston: Safe from traffic counters since Thursday!

Read about this court case in which a police chief and a police dog received a degree from the same on-line college.
Sad thing is, the dog had a better GPA.

I just heard that Robert Adler, the man who invented the television remote control, has died. He was 93.

Adler was a prolific inventor, holding more than 180 patents. But his greatest achievment, one that has changed our lives, is the TV remote control.

The days where you had to get up out of your chair to change channels -- like an animal -- are long gone. Today, you can annoy the bejesus out of your wife by watching three different programs at the same time.

The man was a genius, and had he not died, I'm sure my wife would have killed him.