Coburn’s proposed bill describes the NTIS as “tasked with collecting and distributing government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information and reports.” Besides being a money pit — the service has cost more than it has made in 10 of the past 11 years — Coburn insists the NTIS doesn’t really do much and most of […]
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Switched on
Tom Holland’s Twisted Tales Made not for the cathode rays but for the World Wide Web — FEARnet, to be exact — Tom Holland’s Twisted Tales gives the director of such ’80s horror classics as Child’s Play and Fright Night his own anthology series and, thus, a chance to play Cryptkeeper … or Rod Serling, […]
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LETTERS
For an agency that likes to collect phone numbers and put them in a computer and store them — why do they not have a phone number where one would expect to find it? I might like to strip-search an airport screener at an airport, too. I thought we were supposed to have equal rights […]
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Pills and ammo at the fairgrounds
That’s right. You can bring your least favorite prescription drugs and any ammo you don’t want. It might be a good idea to get rid of the contraband now before the feds decide to raid your home without probable cause. The press release from the city says, “Keeping hazardous material such as lead, zinc, carbon […]
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McClendon announces retirement from Chesapeake
The announcement came in a news release issued by the company today. McClendon, 53, has serve as the company’s CEO since the company was founded in 1989, and served as chairman of the company’s board until last year, when he stepped down amid controversy involving personal loans and company management. McClendon has faced criticism from […]
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Probe
A 1972 pilot film to a short-lived television series, it’s ahead of its time and still a ton of fun. The title refers to the secret organization PROBE Control — with the acronym standing in part for “Program Retrieval Operations”; the remaining two initials are top-secret — where 007-esque agent Hugh Lockwood (Hugh O’Brian, TV’s […]