I know this got kicked around Fark last week, but I thought it bears mentioning again. Farkers were comparing the school webpages of Eli Manning and Philip Rivers. Rivers won as the ugliest.
Then again, as busy as Philip was during his time at State, I suppose I can cut him some slack for his lack of HTML skillz.
Right after the carnage of the morning of September 11th, 2001, six air traffic controllers were interviewed to provide their account of the events. Now word has come out that that tape was destroyed soon afterward.
Don’t you find it strange that such important evidence describing this unprecedented, criminal act of terrorism was destroyed? I mean, why would it be destroyed unless it contained damaging information?
The would-be journalist in me suspects that the controllers’ accounts might not have agreed with the official accounts we’ve been given. In a perfect world, there would be some jail time for the manager who destroyed the tape. Or at least he would lose his job. Then again, the concept of accountability hasn’t been in vogue lately, has it?
I got this from my friend Melissa Verdery, whom I used to work with in a past life. She and her husband Ryan are asking for donations to help care for a little dog who was hit by a car. If you’d like to donate, please contact Ryan at the number below.
Ryan explains the situation:
On Tuesday night, earlier this week, I was on my way home from a late evening of golf with friends at Knight’s Play when I came across a few teenagers who were standing in the middle of the center turn lane of Davis Drive. These sympathetic young people had placed themselves in the middle of the road in order to protect a small bundle of white fluff.
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