Vote for Blarg: About 50,000 true believers have descended on Roswell, N.M., for its annual UFO festival, repeating their demand that the government fess up to what it knows about the folks in flying saucers.
Some suggest that the Democrats are planning astonishing revelations if they win the White House, like their proposal to allow E.T. to enroll in a guest worker program.
Nano, nano. The pocket protector set gathered at the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta for the annual RoboCup, where this year the focus was on nano robots, even smaller than an amoeba.
Fine. Make ‘em as small as you want, just as long as they can still wash the dishes and pull weeds.
Crazy like a boss. Personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary talks to the author of “Crazy Bosses.”. The author lists five types of crazy: the Bully, the Paranoid, the Narcissist, the Wimp and the Disaster Hunter.
The Buzz is waiting for his annual raise, so we’ll make no further comment here.
Wonder blunder? The new seven wonders of the world were named Saturday and some monuments were surprisingly left off the list, such as Stonehenge, the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty.
Guess there wasn’t much hope, then, for the Teapot Dome gas station in Zillah.
– Jon Bauer, Herald staff
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