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Thou shalt pack heat

Published 11:18 pm Saturday, June 27, 2009

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition: A church in Louisville, Ky., offered what it called an “Open Carry Celebration” on Saturday, asking congregants to tote their guns to church along with their Bibles.

Not surprisingly, the morning sermon was very brief.

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Trouble brewing: Herald features writer Andy Rathbun has spent the past year sampling the seasonal beers of regional brewers. He wraps up his hop and barley musings with a look at “five summertime beers.

With all that time to ponder what was inside the bottle, Rathbun also cast a bleary eye on the labels — and he doesn’t like the “hip, flashy colors and names Pyramid Breweries is using.

We hear ya, Andy. We’re still kinda suspicious of those newfangled twist-off caps they’re putting on bottles of beer these days.

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What a piece of work is a man: Ashland, Ore., the city known for its annual Shakespeare festival, is considering “a law against public nudity after a 66-year-old man visiting the city started walking around town wearing only his tennis shoes. The man suggested Ashland needed a public nudity day where everyone would be naked.

Yes, all the world’s a stage, but some of us should never go near the stripper pole.