Everett Maroon at Trans/plant/portation: Some things just aren’t funny
All it takes to hurl over a precipice are some indifferent or absent adults, mean-spirited kids, and bad to no communication.
Cienna Madrid at The Stranger: Plotting a Revolution
…over the next 20 years, as gray-haired farmers hang up their pitchforks and park their combines, 70 to 80 percent of farmland across the nation will be up for sale.
Joel Warner at Denver Westword: Pot versus beer: Are CO’s two iconic industries destined to clash over weed legalization?
The California Beer and Beverage Distributors (CBBD), a trade association, recently made headlines for donating $10,000 to oppose Proposition 19, the California marijuana-legalization measure to be voted on in November.
Ben Palosaari at The Pitch: Ken Cannon, fringe candidate for Kansas governor, acquitted of impersonating a cop
The slippery would-be governor was found not guilty by a Salina judge of falsely impersonating a police officer during a telephone conversation … with a real police officer.
Matt Coker at OC Weekly: Edgar Antonio Lucha, the Alleged Nude Burglar of Westminster, is Behind Bars (and Clothed)
He peaked [sic] under the bed frame and discovered a nude man hiding down there. The stitchless one apologized, explaining that he was under the influence of drugs, according to Westminster Police.
Michael Musto at The Village Voice: Remembering The Sad Story of Elizabeth Hartman
Freckle-faced beauty Elizabeth Hartman debuted in 1965′s A Patch of Blue, earning an Oscar nomination as the blind girl who’s tortured by her mother (Shelley Winters) but learns about the brighter side of human nature when she’s befriended by the nice black man in the park, Sidney Poitier.
