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Ipstenu on January 27th, 2010

I preface this with the acknowledgment that, indeed, some of what I blog is ill-thought out drabble. I don't exhaustively research what I'm saying every time I say it. But that's why this is a Blog, and not news website. Even my 'news' site that I run isn't a newspaper, and [...]

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Ipstenu on April 24th, 2009

I didn't come up with that, my friend Hubbit did. Yesterday I was on the 339 Metra UPN (Union Pacific North) train from Ogalvie to home when, right outside the Rogers Park stop, there was a big THUMP and a bump and the train stopped.
Right away I knew we hit someone. My [...]

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Ipstenu on December 5th, 2008

OJ gets 15 years on the counts of armed robbery and kidnapping.
Apparently he claimed he never meant to steal from anyone And the kidnapping? It was all a misunderstanding. Obviously he'd just asked them to 'wait over there.' And the gun was a prop.
Mind you, I think this is a few years [...]

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Ipstenu on December 2nd, 2008

We've heard "Dog Bites Man" and "Man Bites Dog" and, of course, "Man Marries Head of Lettuce."
Have you heard of this one? A guy in Crystal Lake, IL, claims his dog knocked the gun out from under the bed when the dog hopped into the bed. As the man picked the gun up [...]

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Ipstenu on November 20th, 2008

Eri Yoshida, age 16, is the first woman drafted by a Japanese pro team. The Kobe 9 Cruise drafted the sidearm knuckleballer to play along side the men. Now, sadly, this is for the Kansai Independent Baseball League, but if she does well, I can see her getting picked for the other leagues.
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