Daily Archives: June 10, 2004

Chicken

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One or two of you have probably played some form of chicken. I don’t recommend this variation:

An intoxicated Davis Park man died after he lit a rug on fire and challenged his roommate to see who could stay in the house on Fire Island longer Saturday night, Suffolk County police said. Police said Thomas Woods, 59, ignited the rug in his house at 9 Driftwood Walk sometime before 8 p.m. As the fire spread, Woods fired one or two rounds from a pre-World War I Mauser pistol, said Det. Sgt. Ed Fandrey of the Suffolk County homicide squad. Police do not know why he fired the gun.
When the fire began spreading dangerously, Woods’ roommate, Rod Bennett, ran to a neighbor’s house to call 911 a few minutes after 8 p.m.
Volunteers from the Davis Park Fire Department responded, along with neighbors who tried to extinguish the blaze with garden hoses and anything else they could find. But it was too late.

Via This is True 5/21/04 mailing. Randy Cassingham collects and regularly publishes stories that show that real life is stranger than fiction.
NB: Cunningham does not allow any copying of his rewrites of these stories nor does he give access to back issues of his mailings. The quote above is from a web archived copy of the original Newsday article.

Where is the candidate?

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From Josh Marshall:

Meanwhile, President Bush’s website also showed lots of pictures of John Kerry caught, as you might imagine, in poses suggesting buffoonery, arrogance, indecision and the like. What the GWB website didn’t have any of was pictures of George W. Bush.
Now, earlier today I noted how the Bush campaign has replaced the front page of their website with a Reagan tribute, with a huge picture of the late president backgrounded with flags, accompanied by links to a Reagan tribute video, links to President Reagan’s most famous speeches and statement of his praise for President Reagan by President Bush.
That’s the Bush website now. (You really need to see it to get the picture.)
Now, how many days of leaving the site that way will it take before people start to see the obvious: that President Bush’s campaign staffers believe that pushing their own guy isn’t a particularly good political strategy and that bashing Kerry or grasping on to Reagan nostalgia is far preferable?

Seems to me that a picture, a brief statement, and a link to a tribute page would be about right. As it is, if you look real hard you might find the link to the campaign page.