Run silent, run Beast: A Seattle Seahawk fan has started an online petition that is asking the NFL to change is media policy that requires media-shy Seattle running back Marshawn Lynch to talk to reporters after games.
He’ll have to get in line behind President Obama if he doesn’t want to talk to reporters.
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Oil’s well that ends well: The energy minister for United Arab Emirates says OPEC has no plans to cut its oil production, which should continue to feed the glut of oil on the market and keep gas prices low.
If this keeps up the day may come when we will have to sit our grandchildren on our knee and tell them of a time long ago when we had to wait in long lines to buy gas and OPEC was openly vilified.
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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1784, the U.S. ratified the Treaty or Paris, ending the Revolutionary War. It took Britain until April to ratify the treaty.
Sore losers. This is why we have to wait so long for the BBC to allow PBS to air new episodes of “Downton Abby,” isn’t it?
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Don’t know much about history II: On this day in 1814, hostilities between Denmark and Sweden ended with Denmark agreeing to cede Norway to Sweden.
Norway looked up from its ice-fishing hole and said, “Vait yoost a gol-dern meenit dere.”
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