"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me."
Walt Whitman (1819-92)
"When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break."
Akhenaton (d. c.1354 BC)
And now, the current weather, from some random person we pulled off the street:
Thursday, July 08, 2004
Now It Is
I think I have the Amber Alert ticker working, although it does take a few seconds or more to load. That's due to traffic on the amberalert.org site, and can't be helped.
Double Trouble II “Over a span of time, there were several reports of a subject wearing extremely tight pants with an obvious bulge stuffed down his pants,” says a police spokesman in Greenwich, Conn. But it’s not what you think: the bulge was “a yellow, plush, child’s toy banana. It had a smiley face on it.” The suspect would confront people, usually women, to show them his toy. Arthur Bertana, 62, was caught yellow-handed and ran, but was caught by officers after a foot chase. He was arrested and charged with breach of peace and interfering with a police officer. Bertana, a former cop in nearby Stamford, was “a top-notch police officer back in his day,” said a Stamford Police spokesman. At the time of his arrest, he was on probation for a similar crime. (Greenwich Time) ...It’s unlikely the judge will greet him with a smiley face. Available in This is True: Book Collection Vol. 11
