CHARMING The beauty pageant each April at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Sweetwater, Texas, requires traditional skills like interview poise, evening-gown fashion and talent, but also some ability and inclination to milk and skin rattlers. High school senior Kyndra Vaught won this year’s Miss Snake Charmer, wearing jeweled boots one night for her country-western ballad, then Kevlar … [Read more...] about Snake Charmer Beauty Contests and Urban Fishing and The Best Reality Show Ever
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How Maui Adult Day Care Centers Uses Dancing And Dolls To Help Those With Dementia
This story began over a misunderstanding about a toy. During the run-up to our annual Charity Gift Guide, which we published on Nov. 21, the wish list from Maui Adult Day Care Centers included the curious entry “life size dolls.” Not really sure what the organization meant by that, and having very little knowledge of what MADCC did in any case, I emailed back, asking for … [Read more...] about How Maui Adult Day Care Centers Uses Dancing And Dolls To Help Those With Dementia
Maui Police Arrest MauiTime Publisher Thomas Russo While He Was Filming Their Operation Recon Traffic Stops
Tuesday morning the Maui Police Department arrested Thomas Russo, MauiTime’s publisher and owner, after Russo began filming MPD officers on Haleakala Highway during a massive series of traffic stops involving five or six police cars. Maui PD charged Russo with interfering with a government operation, harassment and resisting arrest. “I stopped to find out why it was so … [Read more...] about Maui Police Arrest MauiTime Publisher Thomas Russo While He Was Filming Their Operation Recon Traffic Stops
Least Competent Sex Offender And Cuddly Geopolitics And Weather Crimes
KIDS THESE DAYS! Among the students featured in Popular Science’s September list of young inventors was Fabian Fernandez-Han, 14, of Conroe, Texas, who invented a bicycle that, when pedaled, also desalinates seawater (via reverse osmosis) from replaceable 15-gallon canisters. One hour of pedaling produces 20 gallons of drinkable water. Jack Andraka, 15, from Maryland, created a … [Read more...] about Least Competent Sex Offender And Cuddly Geopolitics And Weather Crimes
Odd Divorces and Crazy Officials and the Least Competent Terrorists Ever
IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH All U.S. states have forms of no-fault divorce, but not England, which requires that couples prove adultery or abandonment or “unreasonable behavior,” which leads to sometimes-epic weirdness, according to an April New York Times dispatch from London. For instance, one woman’s petition blamed her husband’s insistence that she speak and dress only in … [Read more...] about Odd Divorces and Crazy Officials and the Least Competent Terrorists Ever