— If you’re handicapped or frail, and you want to mail something at the Post Office without standing in line … well, you’re screwed.
— Gosh, the topic of this Star story looks stunningly familiar.
— George W. Bush takes a swipe at Democrats. Meanwhile, the American casualty count in Iraq approaches the number of people who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
This article appears in Aug 17-23, 2006.
As an aside, I thought this concept was fairly cool: Willamette Week (an alternative paper in Portland, Ore.) videographed their intern “steal” his own bike in various locations. The point is that no-one stopped him. The video gets old, but apparently it’s pretty easy to jack a bike:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4yydGUB88c&NR
Check out the guy at the end who walks up and tries to help break the bike lock.