Ice Road Suckers

Published 7:17 pm Sunday, January 22, 2012

Ice Road Suckers

Fools of the road: Street Smarts columnist Bill Sheets recently asked readers to send in their driving pet peeves and received more than 140 responses. Among the top gripes were left-lane campers, tailgaters and those who drive too fast for conditions when it snows.

Actually, there are three types of drivers when it snows: Those who drive faster than you are idiots. Those who drive slower than you are wimps. And then there’s you, the expert driver.

Information, please: As their campaigns moved on to Florida’s Jan. 31 primary for the Republican presidential nomination, Newt Gingrich worked to raise badly needed cash, while Mitt Romney announced he would release his income tax returns.

But fair’s fair: Romney, R-1040EZ, said he’d release his tax returns on condition that Gingrich, R-Ladies’ Man, released his little black book.

Not dead yet: Scientists in the thick jungles of Indonesia have rediscovered a large monkey, Miller’s grizzled langur, that was believed to be extinct, particularly after a search for the primate in 2005 proved fruitless.

Miller’s grizzled langur, “Grizz” for short, said he was fine; he just dropped off Facebook for a while because friends had been bothering him about his upcoming high school reunion.

—Jon Bauer, Herald staff