SleepingPoliceman

Some random current event-type things:

1. boston.com: Big Dig tunnel collapse

Hey, way to be well-constructed, Big Dig. I mean, whatever…I’m sure like 90% of it is well made and of sound construction. That’s a pretty decent ratio. Besides, it’s not like a lot of money went into it – sometimes you have to cut some corners. Oh, don’t worry about that leaking water over there. No, no…it’s nothing. Keep on driving. Have a nice day.

Seriously, this is such a mess. This Amorello character needs to be cut loose. Even if he somehow isn’t a total screw-up who has botched the over-seeing of this project for the past X years, he’s the poster child for their incompetence. There are reports that people who did scientific research on the tunnel refuse to drive through it. Sweet. Way to look like a bunch of stupid jackasses, Boston.

Workers are in the process of removing 100 ceiling panels from a 200-foot stretch of tunnel and hope to have traffic moving again by noon Wednesday, Amorello said. A special tool arrived this morning that can remove five ceiling panels at a time.

And that special tool…is Matt Amorello.

2. NY Times: “Pit Bull” Republican Representative Sensenbrenner focuses on immigration

More like Rep. Nonsensenbrenner! Huh? Huh?

Get it?

Non…sensen…bren…

Fine.

3. NY Times: How a Townhouse Went From Dream To Nightmare

The progression of how I heard about this story was excellent. First: “Did you hear a townhouse collapsed in New York?” Then: “That townhouse probably collapsed because of a gas explosion.”* Then it was, “The gas leak that caused the explosion might have been intentional.” Followed by, “the guy who owns the house triggered it on purpose.” And then, “the guy was a doctor who sent an email to his wife saying he was going to do it.” Finally, to cap it all off, the full story comes out:

The divorce papers described a bizarre, markedly unhappy home life. Dr. Bartha put up “swastika-adorned articles” around the house, according to a court decision, “intentionally traumatizing” her because she is of Jewish descent and was born in “Nazi-occupied” Holland. Dr. Bartha became enraged when she took them down, according to the papers.

Uhhhhh…wow. Sometimes I wonder if these things really are an “only in New York” kind of deal, or if crazy stuff like this happens all over the place, but there just happens to be more newspaper reporters and TV cameras hunkered down in NYC. Nevertheless, this is one of those tremendous stories that grow right out of the Holiday Spirit Garden: the more you peel back the layers, the more the story keeps on giving. Thank you, crazy Dr. Bartha. Sorry about your house. And your total lack of mental stability.

(*note: that was actually followed by Mark jumping in to the email discussion saying, “Rumors are that the building was felled by either a gas explosion or a Zidane head-butt.” Brilliant. We’ll be dealing with that turn of events in another post.)

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