Posts Tagged ‘Oregon’

Wednesday Afternoon Link Trove

CNET.com: “The Internal Revenue Service doesn’t believe it needs a search warrant to read your e-mail. Newly disclosed documents prepared by IRS lawyers says that Americans enjoy ‘generally no privacy’ in their e-mail, Facebook chats, Twitter direct messages, and similar online communications — meaning that they can be perused without obtaining a search warrant signed [...]

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Saturday Link Fricassee

“An Auntie Anne’s pretzel eatery in a Detroit-area mall was recently home to a vicious brawl. Two women returned to the kiosk after discovering that they’d been given the wrong dip and asked for the right one.” Being in a Band is For Losers (Needs one additional paragraph about the requisite intervention Aging Band Guy‘s friends [...]

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Ribs, Second Only to Chicken Wings in Debris-Food Prestige

Via the magic of the Wayback Machine, I uncovered this gem, which I wrote for the local paper of record back in 2004:   Lincoln City, Ore. — Several of the most prolific competitive eaters in stomach-centric sports gathered at Chinook Winds Casino Saturday night to battle it out in the 2004 World Rib Eating [...]

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