From an email: We let our daughter go off with friends for fireworks. This is her face this morning. I said,"What happened?" S...

And then, yesterday, as I waited for the PVC cement to dry, I laid* down on the grass and took a picture looking straight up. ___________ * ...

Edit: Success. Well, not quite. It sprung a leak on one of the joints. So how exactly do you splice a short piece of PVC pipe? You have ...

When I was a kid, my next door neighborset off a firework which was affectionately known back then as a "Cherry Bomb".  He put ...

. . . the Mugshots Of The Week . JULY 3--This Independence Day weekend edition of our mug shot roundup kicks off with a quartet of patriot...

The Rockin' E bar on FM 51 in Decatur is closing and becoming, according to an advertisement in this week's Sunday Messenger which ...

I've always thought that Discount Tire ad, encouraging people to bring their tire back (by throwing it through the window) if they w...

Story . (And more detailed account here .) With sexual abuse cases, each "act" is a separate offense. You can technically have ...

For the life of me, I don't understand this guiy's popularity. I love talk radio. I love talk shows. And some can be somewhat enter...

Russian Cheerleaders . Makes me want to grab my hammer and sickle. (Thanks emailer whom I shall not name.) Dallas County government is a ...

Any word on the Decatur Starbucks? The chain said it would close some of its underperforming stores but I have no idea how the local store ...

How did this slip by me? The First United Methodist Church in Bridgeport has a new pastor and he is a woman? Huh? Is that possible? Doesn...

If I were at the beach . The Cotton Bowl is adding complete upper decks to the end zones. That's quite a few more seats (and a pretty...

So I come back to my office and find these two bottles on my desk. I'm still trying to figure out where they came from but they have a...

NEW YORK - Shares of Devon Energy Corp., the largest U.S.-based independent oil and gas producer, rose Monday as an analyst boosted his pr...

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Hot model suicide . vs. Dumb kid.

And to think that the most comments ever received (in the Comment Moderation Era) would be a post that began "I'm having Internet...