Once Again, Texas Leads the Way

And why those officers were going through the X-ray machine, I'll never know.

Mywesttexas.com: Top Stories: One man was being held in FBI custody Saturday afternoon after security at Midland International Airport found explosives in his carry-on bag and the terminal was shut down for an hour.

The suspect is active military and the explosives were found in his carry-on bag by Transportation Security Administration officers while going through the X-ray machine, Midland police said. The incident happened at 9:26 a.m. Saturday.

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Worst? Sounds Like Best to Me

Denny's Worst Menu Items: Steak And Potatoes Sandwich, Fried Cheese Melt, Bacon Sundae & More

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

Today's Vintage Ad

I For One Welcome Our New Simian Overlords

Apes 'gamble like humans by calculating odds' - Telegraph: Given the choice of a safe bet of a small piece of banana or a larger chunk of fruit hidden beneath one of a selection of shuffled cups, the apes chose to gamble more than 50 per cent of the time.

The team, led by Daniel Haun of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics found that they were also able to identify when the odds were stacked against them and when it was wiser to go with the safe bet.

What's Up, Doc?

The Local: A Swedish woman's recent toiling in her garden turned up a rather unexpected harvest when she pulled a carrot out of the ground 'wearing' the wedding ring she had lost back in 1995.

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Lionel White, The Money Trap, Monarch, 1964

The 30 Best Movie Posters of 2011

The 30 Best Movie Posters of 2011

That Would Be the Previous Apocalypse, not the One Coming Up in 2012

10 Real Survival Guides for One Very Fake Apocalypse

2011's top mysteries of space

2011's top mysteries of space

Today's Western Movie Poster

20 Brilliant Novellas You Should Read

20 Brilliant Novellas You Should Read

The Year's Best Humor Writing 2011

The Year's Best Humor Writing 2011

PimPage: An Occasional Feature in Which I Call Interesting Books to Your Attention

I read this last week. Great pulp action in the air and on the land.

Black Dog Books - Wings of War: The Lone Eagle clove a path of victories across the killing fields during the Great War. But on the ground he was America's first great secret spy fighting against the German High Command!

Now collected into book form are the first two novel-length adventures of the great ace.

The Apartment

Pablo D'Stair's Contest Is Up and Running

The $225 Crime/Noir Flash Fiction Contest is now up and running.

Both collections are available absolutely free for download or viewing via Smashwords. Instructions on how to vote and what to vote on are included at the start and end of each collection.

Collection “A” can be found here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/118428

Collection “B” can be found here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/118430

Again, the main site, where a listing of the authors of the Challenger Collection etc. can be found is here:

Please do give both collections a read and vote your heart—only one who stands to lose in this contest is me, and it’s just a bit of cash—written responses, reviews, thoughts, etc. of whatever color (positive, negative, ambivalent are extremely welcomed and will be shared among the authors.

Happy Birthday, MTM!

Happy 75th birthday, Mary Tyler Moore

Kaye Stevens, R. I. P.

iWon News: Singer and actress Kaye Stevens, who performed with the Rat Pack and was a frequent guest on Johnny Carson's "The Tonight Show," has died at a central Florida hospital. She was 79.

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

Words that annoy us all, you know

CNN.com: If you're thinking of setting up an amazing man cave or showing off a ginormous baby bump next year, think again.

A northern Michigan school on Friday released its 37th annual list of words and phrases that it believes should be "banished" from the English language, and it suggests that some classic -- and perhaps hackneyed -- should get the ax.

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