Scientists to save 5,000-year-old embrace - Yahoo! News

Scientists to save 5,000-year-old embrace - Yahoo! News: "In a
Valentine's Day gift to the country, scientists said they are determined to remove and preserve together the remains of a couple buried 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, their arms still wrapped around each other in an enduring embrace."

Strange...

Yesterday I watched an X-File rerun entitled Field Trip, which included an overhead shot of two skeletons in an embrace -- an image that was very nearly identical to the photo in this Reuters news story.

In Space, No One Can Hear You Go Completely Bat-Shit Crazy

And in a story about the Right Stuff gone terribly, terribly wrong:

Astronaut in bizarre kidnap plot in Florida court - Yahoo! News: "Police allege Nowak drove 950 miles from Houston to Orlando -- wearing adult diapers so she would not have to stop to urinate -- and disguised herself in a dark wig, glasses and trench coat to confront her rival, Colleen Shipman, who according to media reports is a captain in the U.S. Air Force."

Molly Ivins dies of cancer at 62 - Yahoo! News

Molly Ivins dies of cancer at 62 - Yahoo! News: "'Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair's-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?' she wrote in a 2002 column about a California political race."

I love Molly Ivins' political writing. She was a loud, brassy, unabashedly liberal voice, a thoughtful, perceptive thorn in the side of pomposity. She was the Anti-Coulter. She will be missed.

Antony Bourdain on Cleveland's Roots

A quote from celebrity chef and way cool dude Anthony Bourdain, in today's PD:

"Fine dining by all accounts has definitely improved. It's that middle range [of restaurants] that I'm worried about. The guys that need to hang on are not the hot new place, but the ones who have been here all along -- the old-style Polish, German, Ukrainian, African-American places."

This comment hit home with me. While the city desperately needs to free itself from elements of its past, Cleveland's rust belt history and blue collar roots are what make it unique. Cities of the future will be become increasingly identical in their technical infrastructure and related amenities. Let's not turn our backs on the cultural roots that will distinguish this city.

Lev Gonick on Cleveland 2.0

Even in a world dominated by off-shoring to China, out-sourcing to India, supply-chain management phenoms like Wal-Mart, new in-sourcing operational logistics by players like UPS, not to mention the game changing role of the internet, the most important starting point for the Cleveland 2.0 project is to stop looking in the rear view mirror.

This message should be flashling 24/7 on every electronic billboard and DiamondVision screen in the county.