A sickened, sensitive shadow writhing in hands that are not hands, and whirled blindly past ghastly midnights of rotting creation, corpses of dead worlds with sores that were cities, charnel winds that brush the pallid stars and make them flicker low. – H.P. Lovecraft, “Nyarlathotep”

Okay, okay. It’s not that bad. Yet.

According to 24/7 Wall Street, these are America’s Ten Dead Cities. Read the full article for details.

1. Buffalo, NY
2. Flint, MI
3. Hartford, CT
4. Cleveland, OH
5. New Orleans, LA
6. Detroit, MI
7. Albany, NY
8. Atlantic City, NJ
9. Allentown, PA
10. Galveston, TX

The last of our combat troops are leaving Iraq right now.

50,000 trainers and administrators are remaining, but with the departure of these troops officially ends Operation Iraqi Freedom.

It also ends 7 1/2 years of BULLSHIT.

AWESOME news!!!

U.S. Ending Combat Operations In Iraq

Local news radio station reporter Tracy Ellis at KGMI reports that the owner of Guiseppe’s, Guiseppe Mauro, got into a tiff with the landlord of the building Guiseppe’s is leaving for the new waterfront location.

Apparently, the altercation had to do with the terms of the former lease.  The argument got heated, and Guiseppe ripped up the lease in front of landlord Doug Tolchin.  At that point there was some pushing and shoving, and Guiseppe then hit Mr. Tolchin multiple times with a metal wire hanger.  He did not use his FIST.

The result – Guiseppe was cited for misdemeanor assault.  He’s still moving to the waterfront.

Link

UPDATE: Better version of the story in the Bellingham Herald by Isabelle Dills here.

Mediafail.com debuted recently, and I think it’s a great idea.  Whether it will have any impact in reviving a more responsible and less “glitzy” media is debatable and remains to be seen, but their slogan,  “Expose the worst of American Media:  Find it. Post it. Fail it.” appeals to me. It’s a place to blow off some steam, to express a little of that rage against the machine.

I’d love to see it exceed icanhascheezburger.com, but I kind of doubt that will happen. More’s the pity.

I’m glad Thumb is in China and not London.

A Ferndale man smelled this morning, smelled of a combo of human, horse and cow manure, perhaps, and offended customers at the Sunset Cost Cutter in Bellingham today, according to a news report in the Herald.

A Cost Cutter employee asked the man to leave because he was offending everyone, and the smelly man didn’t like it so punched the worker and landed in jail on 4th degree assault charges.

It’s a mad mad mad world. At Cost Cutter. And Ferndale.

And now, from the great state of Texas, one of the few places where you can get chicken fried bacon–

Read the article “Meet the Flintstones” here

Heads up to Blue-Eyed Mary for sending this my way–

Lord, deliver us from the Comet, the Turk and the Heathen.