The three Heene boys, including 6-year-old Ryo (confusing, as he is referred to in Falcon in at least one article), who was believed to have floated away in his family’s hot air balloon earlier today, appear in this rather odd rap-style home video with an unappealing title. The balloon has since come down, and the boy was not inside. WHERE IS HE? One has to question the judgment of parents who would write a song for their children using the word “p***ified.” The family has appeared on the CBS show Wife Swap, and the father, Richard Heene, maintains a...
Our World
Strange as fiction
Crime novelist Lisa Reardon is in jail in Michigan for allegedly shooting her father. According to the Detroit Free Press: Lisa Ann Reardon’s father is in stable condition today as she sits in the Washtenaw County Jail, according to the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office. He fled inside the home in the 6300 block of Brand after she shot him at 7:30 p.m. Friday. And after trying “numerous times” to follow him inside, she drove off and was later arrested in Livingston County.
Goodbye, with love, John Hughes
I just heard the news that John Hughes has died. For those of us who came of age in the eighties, his name means more than the movies. It brings back a whole slew of memories: names of boys and girls we knew, and places they took us, and the things we did and didn’t do. It was Sven Delaney’s mother who drove, I remember that clearly. This was 1984, a hot Saturday in Mobile, Alabama, and Sven and his mother picked me up in a station wagon, one of those long sleek numbers with wood paneling and little...
Do You Have Stockpile Syndrome?
I was at Walgreen’s yesterday when I overheard a man at the pharmacy counter asking for face masks. “This is our last box,” the pharmacist said. The man glanced around to see if anyone was looking. I swear he gave me the evil eye right before he snatched the box from the pharmacist’s hands and hid it in his basket. Despite reading that the masks may be pointless, I’d already looked for them. Out of a mild sense of self-respect, I had refrained from actually asking for them. Now, apparently, it was too late. If swine flu swept the...
Wireless Amber Alerts/Sandra Cantu
Sandra Cantu’s murder has tragically brought the plight of missing children into the spotlight once again. Although no Amber Alert was issued after Sandra’s disappearance, the Amber Alert is, in many cases, a very important part of the search for the child. The longer a child is missing, the less likely it is he or she will be found alive, and the very first hours after the child’s disappearance are the most important. You can sign up to receive Amber Alerts on your cell phone here. All you have to do is enter your phone number. You can also...
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