"Yikes! I Might Be...Militia!"
At home and abroad, short people dominated the news today.
In Sweden, gangs of criminals have been found to be hiding dwarves in sports bags and smuggling them onto buses to steal luggage, according to a Sky News report. Once inside the baggage hold of a bus, the tiny terrors rummaged through personal belongings of their fellow travelers.
Here in the United States, AP reported this afternoon that Democrat presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich has abandoned his second bid for the White House. Apparently, voters either weren’t ready for a president only 5 feet 7 inches tall or they weren’t ready for a tongue stud-wearing first lady — or both!
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1 monoblogue » Blog Archive » Kucinich packs it in, and other political oddities // Jan 24, 2008 at 7:01 pm
[...] wife, though, will be the one sadly missed from the national limelight. (Thanks to Bob McCarty for that [...]
2 Always On Watch // Jan 24, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Dwarves hidding in bags and acting as special thieves? I hadn’t heard this story! Gave me a smile, which I desperately need right now.
3 Always On Watch // Jan 24, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Hey, Bob! Remember that song “Short People”?
4 hotoffthepress2 // Jan 24, 2008 at 7:09 pm
AOW — I think it was Randy Newman who wrote that one, possibly based on Kucinich?
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