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One of the best things about being in the travel business is traveling. We get many invitations from tourism boards and CVBs to send writers out to do stories. These trips are always well organized (well most of them anyway) and when you travel courtesy of the tourism board, you […]
Firemen in Donetsk, Ukraine fled in panic from a blazing building after one of them grabbed a hosepipe that turned out to be a 10-foot python. The firefighters had arrived to fight a blaze at a health club in, when one of them tripped over what he thought was a […]
Mark Flanagan, of Glannant, Wales, was wandering drunk on a divided highway, after his brother’s stag party when he was run down–by four separate cars. None of the drivers stopped to help him. And none of them reported any of the accidents. At Flanagan’s inquest, a coroner called the quadruple […]
Last week in New York they had their first stagecoach accident in a century. Two horses, breaking loose from their stagecoach ran with nostrils flaring down 14th Street with the police in chase. Jennifer Fermino described it in the NY Post. “Hero and Princess sent pedestrians scurrying for their lives […]
Newsweek’s story about a koran being flushed down the toilet at Guantanomo prison is turning into an epic case of damage control gone bad. Today’s NY times has a story about the background of the alleged incident. “Erik Saar, a co-author of the book “Inside the Wire” and an Arabic […]
From today’s cyberjournalist.net, comes a funny report about the merging of the old and the new. You can go to this link and watch the clip on the TV show. “The Daily Show ran an entertaining segment last week on how TV broadcasts are increasing reading from blogs on air. […]
The little button that I placed on the bottom of the blog has provided fascinating details about my readers here at Readuponit. The one that says “site meter,” There were about 204 of you who came and read the site yesterday, you stayed an average of 39 seconds. Some of […]
An MSNBC.com horror story news article says bed bugs can live for months without food — patiently waiting for the next hapless hotel guest to arrive so they can feast on him. Even upscale hotels are not immune to litigation, and bug specialists say the pests can thrive even in […]
Pelosi Shoe Drama Has Fairytale Ending At last, the searing drama of Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s missing pink shoe has come to an end. And what an end it was! Freshman Representative Dave Reichert (R-Washington) dropped to one knee during a press conference, flourished an elegant pink slingback and […]
The web just cuts right to the chase. Paidcontent.org is the name of the site where I found this snippet about the New York Times’ new idea for fighting the neverending battle against revenue shrink, called TimesSelect, where you will have to pay to read their op-ed and some of […]
