Phone Wars

The Phone Companies, in response to inexpensive VOIP providers, have let
loose new promotions to regain your business. First, ?Verbs Are Free Day?,
where all calls are free, provided?.
Operator: Welcome to ?All Verbs Are Free? Day. Please proceed with your
call.
Person One: Greeting!
Person Two: Chillin?.
Person One : Drinkin?
Person Two: Drank, Drunk.
Person One: [...]

Military Admits to Extensive Dumping of Chemical Arms and Radioactive Waste Off US Coast

Are your radioactive Oysters not savory enough? Try a dash of nerve and mustard agents to spice things up. The Bradenton Herald reports:

The Army now admits that it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons [...]

Spectrum Now!

Last week, a Senate committee approved legislation that would set the date for broadcasters to complete the switch from analog to digital signals to April 7, 2009. The conversion will free up radio spectrum for use by public safety agencies. This spectrum is vital for cities to manage large scale incidents like natural disasters or terrorist attacks. They were supposed to have it by 2006. The delay could prove deadly.

Trouble

I was in trouble today.
See, I was crossing the street at Times Square walking toward the Conde Nast building. Cool place, with a great cafeteria, where if you use your imagination, you would think the tofu squares in the salad actually taste like chicken.
I was early for my appointment, maybe a half hour or [...]