On Dec. 17, 1957, things came to a head. Trickey was inching her way between the tables in the lunchroom.
“I was holding the tray above their heads, trying to get through the aisle,” she recalls.
Meanwhile, junior Dent Gitchel was trying to eat his lunch.
“There were some guys harassing her along the aisle,” he says. “Some [...]

Entry: Props
Occurence: August 9, 2007
Posted: August 10, 2007
Source: NPR
Incident: Tovia Smith reports on the South Carolina Republican Party’s movement of its presidential primary to January, posing a challenge to the importance of the New Hampshire presidential primary, for NPR’s “All Things Considered”:
The mad scramble among states has been going on for months. Picture a bunch [...]

Clown Coffee would like all his fans to know that he will be on This American Life tomorrow. I can’t imagine that anyone at NPR knows how to use the internet, so check your favorite progressive alt-weekly for local listings.
Nnnnn…it’s EXCITING!
Speaking of NPR, I heard this show on it last night that was all about [...]

Entry: Peeps
Posted: October 3, 2006
Source: NPR
Incident: Nancy Marshall Genzer reports on the new term of the Supreme Court of the United States, and its unique make-up of business friendly justices, for NPR’s “Marketplace”:
The Supreme Court’s opening day comes just about a week after the season premier of Law & Order…One of the cases before the [...]

Like a number of latte drinking, tree hugging, homo loving, Jew being, EXTREME left wing liberals, I enjoy the NPR program “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me.” It’s not my favorite thing on Earth, which is getting blow jobs while eating pizza in a two person submersible watercraft, but it kills an hour each week. Actually, [...]

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The disadvantage, of course, being, you know, all that cancer.

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“Beware, North Korea, or we shall blind you with the ancient art of ULTIMATE CUTENESS.”

I hate SPOILERS, but I finally realized last night that my anti-SPOILER fury may be getting out of control when the creator of Deadwood was being interviewed on NPR and talked about visiting the grave of Calamity Jane, a known historical figure who died in 1903, and I thought “Her grave?! So she dies?! THANKS [...]

Dear Garrison Keillor,
Aughra, Keeper of Secrets, called. She wants her look back.
Love,
W3

I remember hearing a couple years ago on NPR about this scientist who developed a virtual reality machine that would simulate the experience of a paranoid schizophrenic. Basically you had this helmet on and you moved through this grocery store where everyone’s face morphed into demons or something and cans of beans were yelling at [...]