Rust Valley

With a massively underdeveloped sense of irony, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette is unintentionally running a multi-week parody of the local climate. Last week, you may recall, they noted that the Business section contained obituaries.
This week, it is the lottery that the business section contains.  This may reflect an ill-founded hope by the local business [...]

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I am more clever than I thought I was.  Apparently, I got away from the police not once, but twice:

A man who police said stole a car and led officers on a chase that prompted them to evacuate a Wal-Mart store has been caught after spending the night at the home of an acquaintance. Man [...]

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I’d like to take this opportunity to apologize to everyone in the Walmart in Phoenix, Arizona who had to be evacuated when I tried to get away from the Cops. The whole thing started when I took off while they were trying to get me on a warrant. I hid under the bed [...]

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Yesterday I was walking Agatha (aged 4 years) to school, as I do most mornings. She asked me what day of the week it was. She’s getting curious about time and days of the week and the patterns of life that go along with those. So I replied that it was Tuesday [...]

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This cannot have been intentional.  But the confluence of the “Obituaries Inside” call-out right next to the section heading for the Business section in yesterday’s paper was too rich to not be called out.  In these economic times, I’m sure the combination is accurate.
In particular:  Circuit City has decided to seek Chapter 11 protection today [...]

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