Rats Seen Near Waterbury Fast-Food Restaurant Well, apparently it was top story at NBC30 in Connecticut. Lead off with local, right? :) Link courtesy of This Modern World

The mother blames the schools for not providing proper sex education. Because goodness knows there’s not much a parent could have taught them…oh, wait. :(

Russian lake goes missing. Link courtesy of warrenellis.com

“Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, uhh… grrr snarl yum yum.” MyCatHatesYou.com

“My work guarantees me a place in the halls of the immortals, while you are simply destined for the dirt. Think on that.” Rokara Soh, Thanagarian See, this sort of thing is why it’s hard to like Thanagarians. They seem to have way too much self-esteem. Go Rann! ;) (Sometimes I wish I could talk like that, though…) Quote courtesy of The Absorbacon, which can’t help but pull for Thanagar, being their source of knowledge and all. ...

Frank Gorshin, who gave me the creeps as a kid when playing The Riddler on the 1960’s TV version of Batman, passed away on Tuesday. What I primarily remember about that show wasn’t the exaggerated wooden acting of Adam West…it was the sheer enthusiasm of the people playing the villains. They really made the show, and and I loved episodes with Gorshin playing the Riddler and Cesar Romero playing The Joker. (Hey, let’s play on a child’s natural fear of crazy, malicious people…and clowns!) ...

Very cool. You can zoom into various sections and look for different cities, or at least the communities that made up those cities. (For Greensboro, look for New Garden Meeting House. For Winston-Salem, look for Salem and Wachovia just to the west. I grew up near Upper Saura Town, just to the north of Wachovia, and I had no idea there was a mountain called Ararat nearby.) Link courtesy of Tar Heel Blogwatch ...

Darth Vader on Contractors: Due to the haste with which we are proceding through the latter phases of this battle-station’s construction we have been forced to employ scores of civilian contractors from across the galaxy in addition to our own Imperial Corps of Engineers. This had led to a certain clash of working cultures. For instance, this morning I critiqued a tragically sub-par piece of workmanship on a tractor-beam repulsolift inversion assembly by snapping the neck of the site supervisor and throwing his limp corpse down a disused elevator shaft. ...

Yep, this may be our next Ambassador to the United Nations. If the lack of preparation or basic interest in diplomacy indicated in this article is true, then why is John Bolton even still employed, much less getting promoted? Link courtesy of Obsidian Wings Update: That darned Democrat Voinovich on Bolton. ;)

I like that cat color. Daring, but it goes well with neutral-toned furniture. :)