Archive for January 18th, 2007

Judge Dismisses Charges Against BASE Jumper

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

NY State Supreme Court Justice Michael Ambrecht dismissed charges against BASE (Building, Antenna, Span, Earth) Jumper Jebb Corliss. Corliss was charged with reckless endangerment for trying to parachute from the 86th floor (observation floor) of the Empire State Building on April 27th, 2006. He snuck his equipment in the building and ...

Vote For Sgt. Hook

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Via Fausta, The VA Mortgage center is having a contest for best Military Blog. Please vote for Sgt. Hook so he can travel to Washington D.C. and visit the hospitalized troops there and attend the Milblog conference!

Plane Lands in Tree

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

A small plane landed in a tree in December in Colorado. The sign nearby directs one to a flight school. True picture.

Breaking - Art Buchwald, R.I.P.

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Art Buchwald died today at 81. He was a Pulitzer Prize winning political humorist/columnist. According to Fox News he was on dialysis last year and went into hospice and then he got better and got out of hospice and wrote a book about it. His son said he went the way he ...