Category: default || By jt3y

Hit 'n run thoughts, and things I learned from the Internet while I was looking for other things:

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Bentleyville's Maple Creek Mining, which announced last week that was laying off several hundred people in response to a state Department of Environmental Protection order, has a Website. And a pretty good one, too, though the press releases don't seem to be particularly up to date.

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All of the Sears, Roebuck & Co. nostalgia you can stand and more is available at the Sears Archives. For instance, did you realize that Arthur Crudup and Muddy Waters got their start playing Sears Silvertone guitars? (We had a Sears Silvertone TV when I was growing up, and I still have a Silvertone tape recorder.)

Or, did you realize that creepy actor Vincent Price once marketed his own collection of fine art through Sears stores? He didn't sell wax mannequins, unfortunately, but the portraits of Dorian Gray were very popular.

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Appropos of nothing: How does a terrible show like "Crossing Jordan" keep getting back on the air? I mean, I think Jill Hennessy is as cute as a bug, but this has got to be one of the most contrived, over-the-top dramas ever to air on network television --- outside of daytime soap operas, of course. And I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks so.

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I wish Alan Dershowitz would tell everyone what he really thinks:

The world made a terrible mistake by not treating Arafat as a criminal. He should have been indicted for ordering the murder of American diplomats, Israeli athletes, and international travelers instead of being praised for his "courage." It takes no courage to kill the helpless and much courage to risk one's own life in pursuit of peace. It was such courage that Arafat lacked.

The Nobel Peace Prize was cheapened by being awarded to this hater of peace. The Vatican was tarnished by its frequent welcoming of a man who violated every teaching of the Church. The United Nations was trivialized by its lionization of this coward. And terrorism was encouraged by the rewards Arafat received for his murders.

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To my list of great comic strips that are, sadly, not seen in Pittsburgh, add Mark Pett's "Lucky Cow." Sunday's strip made me laugh out loud.

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When one attended a Division III college, one takes what moral victories that one can get:

CMU, which didn't have a starter taller than 6-foot-6, held a 45-43 halftime lead, led 53-46 early in the second half and trailed by only five points until Pitt's late surge.

We're something like the national Democratic Party in that respect.

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Officials in Richmond, Va., were not amused when the sculptor of a statue honoring police officers included a tiny drawing of a pig and the words "oink resistant" on the bottom of it, so they had it sanded smooth.

They didn't notice, however, that a plaque recently placed on the statue misquotes the Gettysburg Address.

For the record, I knew a police detective who wore a tiny "Porky Pig" tie tack. You have to love a guy with a sense of humor!

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And this entry is becoming dangerously close to reading like a Larry King column ("I wish Freddie Prinze was alive today, so that we could both laugh"), so it's time to quit.