Frozen assets
Published 10:39 pm Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Cash for flunkers: Former Louisiana congressman William Jefferson, D-Frigidaire, was convicted in federal court Wednesday of accepting bribes, $90,000 of which he had stashed in his home’s freezer.
Jurors rejected his explanation that the cash-stuffed fridge floated into his home on flood waters from Hurricane Katrina.
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That wasn’t the way it was: As much as revered CBS newsman Walter Cronkite shaped broadcast journalism he was mistaken to claim, as he and many others have, that broadcasters in Sweden and Holland were called “cronkiters” or “kronkiters.” The oft-repeated story is apocryphal.
However, it is true that pundits who repeat false statements even in the face of incontrovertible proof — insisting, for instance, that President Barack Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. — are called “dobbsers.”
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And a cat toy to be named later: A stray cat that got loose on the field at Kansas City’s Kaufman Stadium briefly stopped play during the Seattle Mariners game there.
Not done with finding the pieces to make a contender of the Mariners, general manager Jack Zduriencik, noting the cat’s quickness around the base paths, signed it, then traded it for two minor league pitching prospects.
