Bits & Pieces

 

Bits and pieces from this reporter’s notebook.

Da-deet-da-deet-da-deet-deet....The Taliban have claimed responsibility for killing a 29-year-old French woman working for the United Nations in Afghanistan. The shameful, cowardly act prompted the UN to withdraw its staff from much of the country, long regarded as the most backward nation on the planet. It should be used as a nuclear waste depository, with the Taliban keep warming by the pile.

Da-deet-da-deet-da-deet-deet....If you ever needed a reason to hate the French, you might look at its wine industry. Granted, they make some of the finest wine the world has known, but the people hawking their product are pushing against their government’s campaign to discourage drinking and driving. The industry says people can have two or three glasses of wine and still drive safely. The French have a .05 limit, compared to our mostly .08, and since cracking down have dramatically reduced drunk driving deaths.

Da-deet-da-deet-da-deet-deet....Speaking of bombed, the Air Force is gonna drop another mother on Florida. It’s a 21,700 pound satellite-guided GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, or MOAB, Mother of All Bombs. You can tell it’s mostly a lotta noise since they’re announcing it in advance, although they probably wanted to alert the locals as to why the earth may move for them.

Da-deet-da-deet-da-deet-deet....Authorities of a different sort were swarming over Neverland yesterday. That’s Michael Jackson’s ranch north of Santa Barbara. They haven’t said what they’re looking for, but reports say they have an arrest warrant for Whacko Jacko as regards misbehavior with children.

Da-deet-da-deet-da-deet-deet....The investigating is over as far as the judge is concerned, and the prosecution has apparently satisfied that the evidence against Scott Peterson is weighty enough to bring him to trial. He’s charged, in case you’ve been in a coma this year, with killing his very pregnant wife on Christmas Eve and dumping her body into San Francisco Bay.

Da-deet-da-deet-da-deet-deet....The headline read "Meat Loaf Collapses on London Stage" and if you weren’t familiar with "Bat out of Hell" it would probably be a tad confusing. Anyway, the over-sized Grammy Winner who works up a serious sweat before the end of his first song didn’t make it through his concert. Suffering from exhaustion brought on be a virus, the big belter is recovering in a London hospital.

Da-deet-da-deet-da-deet-deet....Finally, also making a trip to the hospital, an East St. Louis elementary school janitor who was brought in by emergency medical techs still attached to a telephone in which he’d gotten his fingers struck trying to retrieve his fifty cents. Said the manager of the ambulance company, "I've been in this business more than 30 years. I've seen a lot of weird things, but never anyone trapped in a telephone."

 

And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.

 

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