Tool and die makers and framing carpenters aren’t the only folks struggling with job losses these days. Lawyers are suffering, too. The number of unemployed lawyers jumped 66 percent in 2008, and entire law firms are going under.
All right, all right. Wipe that smile off your face.
Varmint bomb: Spokane is turning to something called the “Rodenator Pro” to rid parks of burrowing squirrels. The unit pumps propane into the underground holes and ignites the gas, blowing up the critters real good.
“To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint,” Rodenator CEO Carl Spackler said. “And a varmint will never quit — ever. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower.”
Iceberg interruptus: On this day in 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean.
The iceberg strike and subsequent battle for survival interrupted a romantic encounter between penniless artist Jack Dawson and upper-crust debutante Rose Dewitt Bukater inside a car in the vessel’s hold. The couple were on the run from Rose’s snobbish fiance Cal Hockley and his homicidal manservant, Spicer Lovejoy.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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