Need a job? The city needs bus drivers.

A teen with a machete gets the Taser treatment from APD.

A lawyer in Mississippi was thrown in jail for not saying the Pledge of Allegiance.

Year 10 of war in Afghanistan.

Soldiers and scientists may have figured out what's killing the honeybees.

A bill to help banks snuck through the Senate with no debate.

Very thin women make way more money.

Why does everyone hate the weather so much?

A Pakistani diplomat says President Obama exaggerated the terror threat to Europe.

Hispanics will likely vote Democrat this year.

Forbes named the first lady the most powerful woman in the world.

Toxic red sludge reached the mighty Danube in Hungary.

Westerly weed.

Got to read books by Mario Vargas Llosa. He just won the Nobel for literature.

 

I thought it looked enough like marijuana that I stopped to take a picture of it. I was going to pinch off a leaf to take back to the botany lab, but there were a couple of cops standing about five feet away and I was afraid it was all an elaborate drug sting. Anyway, it’s growing out of a crack in the sidewalk on civic plaza, over on the north end by the crosswalk.

• You are not (fonduefork) [ Tue Jul 27 2010 5:06 PM ]
  

Image courtesy of the US Drug Enforcement Administration

While enjoying a Camel Wide in the shade at Fifth and Central, just a few minutes ago, I was joined by a tattooed young man with a cigarette of another kind.

"You wanna get fucked up?" he asked.

Surprised by the after school special moment I was having I responded, "um, no thanks."

"Why not man? It's so hot."

"Uh...I've got to go back to work in a minute," I told to my new "friend."

"Oh? Where you work?" he asked, oddly sheepish for someone trying to sell me weed on a busy street.

"At the newspaper right there," I said, hoping he'd split.

And he did. Woah. I didn't expect "newspaper" to cause so much fear in the heart of one pot dealer.

With barely a goodbye, my chances of afternoon typos and zone outs vanished down the street, looking for another mark.

At least I don't look like a narc. Must be the braids I'm sporting today.

• Word on the street is (fonduefork) [ Tue Jul 27 2010 3:22 PM ]
  
• I already took a picture of it! (Nick Brown) [ Tue Jul 27 2010 3:30 PM ]
  
• you are such a liar nick brown. (fonduefork) [ Tue Jul 27 2010 3:34 PM ]
  

It's the one year anniversary of the King of Pop's death.

[Moment of silence]

Onto porn news! The Indian Embassy changed its web address, the old one is now a pornography site. If you want to start your own webcam business you can now be whateverdirtythingyouwant.xxx. Unless you work at a church, then you should probably stay away from porn, especially kiddie porn.

Cleanse your mind with a world news quiz.

Before you go outside, check out this sunscreen smackdown. Especially if you're a vampire, like Robert Pattinson, who doesn't just play a vampire in the movies.

Korea celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Korean War with a shipping ban.

Some Alaskan scientist decides to play Grizzly Man, but wins.

Campers go crazy in the Pecos.

There are fucking mice everywhere. Ew.

41% of people think pot should be legal, which means 59% of people want to harsh your mellow.

There's a cat-fight brewing in Vermont over leash laws for felines.

Duuuuude. Smoking weed to ease schizophrenia might actually make it worse. Bummer.

Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff creeps people out via Twitter.

Jose Saramago, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, comes to the end.

Ramen, it's not just for college students.

The federal government might sue Arizona over immigration.

So, the Lakers won. [insert your own expletive here]

This guy is going to do just fine in prison.

Albuquerque teenagers play "hide the baby."

Don't get buried in Santa Fe.

The US plays Slovenia today. Quick, locate Slovenia on a map!