The quiet state of Kansas is not a liberal one. Life is comfortable and runs smooth, there is no big incentive to look further, it is so perfect already.
The state's most outstanding self-denial has been the controversy involving creationists and evolunionists. This is a local issue but I believe it falls under the same roof as the percentage of Americans who believe they have been abducted by aliens and the number of people who actually think that Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon was just a TV trick.
Topeka's daily newspaper, the Topeka Capital Journal, like any other newspaper or TV station on the planet, bears its share of responsiblity. Wanting to know what's going on in arts and culture (trying to defeat the notion that nothing goes on around here), I flipped through the newspaper's many pages and found nothing. No symphony concerts, no exhibitions, performing arts are just missing. Book reviews? Not really. It apparently has to do with the day of the week.
But I found fun headlines: "Fine furniture, family, make for fine life" and "Web site aims to catch spouses who cheat online". Life is still perfect, what a relief.
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Yesterday and today, a snapshot in time with a few of today's headlines:
US & World
US jets drop bombs in Basra
Consumer spending weak in February
Dean: Bickering Democrats may hurt party
Raul Castro: Cubans can have cell phones
Police close off Lhasa's Muslim quarter
North Korea tests short-range missiles
Strange
Man writes check on 2-ply toilet paper
Iowa county board OKs ghost hunters
Runaway SUV knocks man off his toilet
Woman crashes into water, saves coffee
Woman trying to help after crash bitten
Soap, undies stolen in odd home robbery
No dia em que o Correio da Manhã tiver uma secção chamada "Strange", aí sim, há razão para alarme.
Friday, March 28, 2008
The infidelity check (reissued from July 31st 2003)
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Ahahah Bom, mas já tem aquela categoria... como é que se chama? Loucuras? [No outro dia li lá uma de uma senhora - norte.americana, pois claro - que tinha fobia de sair da casa de banho. Pior, o namorado - norte.americano, pois claro - deixou.a lá estar dentro durante dois anos. Ao que contam, quando saiu, a pobre tinha a pele das pernas agarrada à sanita.] Hmm.. isto fez.me lembrar... acho que está na hora da minha bica e pastel de nata.
:)))))))) é capaz de estar pois é!!!
todo o correio da manhã é uma secção "strange".
Engraçado, nunca encontrei à venda uma revista de qualidade sobre assuntos estranhos. Mas, que as há, há!
Boa, boa Jorge! :))))
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