Just heard on my local TV: a guy stopped two people on the street, flashed a fake cop badge, and made off with 14 whole dollars from the second person. The first one ran away and the miscreant got nothing.

They're calling it a "crime spree."

-- Mal

http://www.boredpanda.com/famous-painting-remakes/

I don't know how to hotlink examples, but there are some nice pix here.

-- Mal

-- Mal

Well, of the crime, not the song:



And Arlo has already been interviewed by the Daily Beast: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/26/arlo-guthrie-on-stupid-politicians-and-50-years-of-thanksgiving-classic-alice-s-restaurant.html

-- Mal

Beatles with no drummer and Stu Sutcliffe on bass. Very rare bootleg.



-- Mal

This is really worthy of not: in a online game I'm playing, an acquaintance had a 97% chance of completing a task successfully, and failed twelve straight times. Children the odds against that are so high, you might as well say "impossible" and forget about it.

-- Mal