But please, not “The Vow”: Gentlemen, Valentine’s Day approaches and you’re wondering how you’re going to get out of watching a chick flick. Have you considered selling your dearest on the romantic sides of movies such as “Say Anything,” “Jerry Maguire” or even “Die Hard”?
And if you doubt your ability to persuade her about the love story behind “Terminator,” remember that you were able to convince her to date you in the first place.
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The long and pot-holed road: After both House and Senate picked apart her plan to fund $3.6 billion in transportation improvements, including a proposal to tax barrels of oil headed to refineries, Gov. Chris Gregoire accused legislators of jeopardizing roads and ferries and warned they “cannot kick the can down the road” (above).
Legislators then voted down Gregoire’s proposal to tax the can.
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Tycoon’s typhoon: Donald Trump, real estate tycoon and host of “Celebrity Presidential Apprentice,” has vehemently protested a decision by Scotland’s government to allow a wind farm off the coast of Trump’s Scottish golf resort. “With the reckless installation of these monsters, you will single-handedly have done more damage to Scotland than any event in Scottish history!” Trump blustered.
Trump obviously has never encountered a plate of haggis.
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