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The Buzz Blog

November 11, 2009

Squawking and honking

Posted at 12:01 am by Jon Bauer, Herald staff

The state Supreme Court has agreed to reconsider the conviction of a former Monroe woman who repeatedly honked her car's horn at neighbors in a squabble over her chickens. The woman is claiming that honking is protected under the Constitution's First Amendment as free speech. A lower court ruled that the woman's honking wasn't a readily understandable form of speech.

We have to agree with the appeals court on this one. If you want to get your point across, don't honk. Tweet.

Don't know much about history: On this day in 1620, 41 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, signed a compact calling for a “body politick.”

And this is what actually led to the first Thanksgiving; their handwriting was so poor, the women aboard the Mayflower mistook “body politick” for “goodly potluck.”

UPS ships the Snuggies: FedEx says it expects to ship about 8 percent more packages this year than last year on its busiest shipping day of the year, Dec. 14. That would be about 13 million packages.

About half of the 13 million packages will be Slankets sent to the nation's grandmothers.