Newscoma

Mental Floss has the world most eight unique newspapers.

Since newspapers are generally intended for geographic areas, not to cover specific topics, finding newspapers that are unusual for one reason or another can be tricky. After searching far and wide, I’ve found 8 rather unique newspapers.

Go here. Pretty cool.

Was Weekly World News a newspaper?

I miss it.

Sabrina Bates, chief staff writer extradonaire, found this story this evening and sent it to me.

John Edwards dropped out of the Democratic race this week and initially, his campaign asked the secretary of state to remove his name. But NBC 10 has learned that Edwards’ campaign has since asked for Edwards’ name to remain on the ballot.  

Interesting.

One of the many reasons I <8 Big Stupid Tommy.

I wear trifocals and I only got sick twice. Now stop it.

I like BST’s movie reviews. And I like this one of Cloverfield very much.

I like the movie. Muchly. Mostly because it’s the disaster movie I’ve been waiting for all my life. It’s the one where all the important characters die. I think the only thing that could have topped it would be to finish the flick with a shot of the Cloverfield Monster punching its way to the center of the planet, and having the Earth explode as a result. I have no real defense as to enjoying the fact that everybody dies…a mere explanation that some days, I fall into that George Carlin line of thinking, where humanity’s on a boat ride down the spiral of a flushing toilet. As luck would have it, today was one of those days. So, no Hollywood “the good guys make it” ending. I heart that.

Yeah, BST is groovy.

Heh.

Remember this postal worker? I had the pleasure of transacting business with her today. And when I say pleasure, I do not mean it.

I walked up to the counter, said hello (pleasantly), and told her I wanted to send my parcel priority mail with $25 insurance. Instead of asking me if I had anything liquid fragile, perishable, or hazardous¹ in the mailer envelope, she said, “What have you got in there that’s worth $25?”

“It’s a photograph.”

“A photograph!?”

I had two trains of thought on this.

A. It’s ART!!! Of course it’s going to be insured, dippy postal person. Do not question this as Jane was giving you money.

My other line of thought was this:

B. My granddad was a rural postal delivery guy. I went on the route with him and he knew every dog’s name on his route and we would whirl through northwest Tennessee’s backroads with a saucy Chocolate Soldier and peanuts in my hands in a 1972 Scout which smelled like Winston cigarettes and ink. In retrospect, I think it was the abundance of ink in the huge canvas bags which held the mail.

His was a beige color if I remember correctly. Later on he had a baby blue Pacer which I ADORED. I loved my grandfather. He wore bright colored leisure suits usually in some shade of yellow and always ate bologna sandwiches for lunch covered with black pepper and mustard when he would get off the route. Yeah, he was one of a kind. The stories I could tell, yet I won’t, as he would haunt me.

Read Hillbilly Please everyday.

That is all.

The one thing that I like about Lost so much is that it is mysterious, there are no heroes and yet everyone has heroic moments.

I have to say I knew a lot about certain things that were going to happen but I tried to keep an element of spoiler-free surprise. Yes, there was some big “doings” in last night’s episode but I think the things I like most about Lost are those small moments that say a whole lot and yet leave the viewer’s mind open to that person’s own interpretation.

Spoilers below so if you haven’t see Lost steer clear.

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The city of Jackson has been held accountable for legal fees incurred due to a public records lawsuit.

The city of Jackson must pay The Jackson Sun more than $41,000 in legal fees and expenses for a public records lawsuit the newspaper filed against the city.

Chancellor James F. Butler ruled in the case Tuesday citing a statute in the state Public Records Act that allows a court to assess all reasonable costs involved in obtaining a public record from a government entity that has willfully refused to disclose it.

Snip

In the 2005 lawsuit, The Sun said that city officials wrongly denied access to public records and failed to respond to the newspaper’s request for those records. The newspaper contended that the city either wrongly claimed the requested records, were not open to the public or ignored the requests.

The newspaper was seeking access to three groups of information:

Field interview cards, which are police files created when officers stop citizens, question them and sometimes photograph them without making an arrest.

Financial records for the Diamond Jaxx, whose owners had notified the city of plans to relocate because of consecutive years of losses.

The January 2005 911 tape of a call made by a victim in the Tennessee Department of Transportation garage shooting involving David Lynn Jordan.

 The story is here.