Occupational hazard

"'We need to leave. This is not right. We need to get out of here."'

- real estate agent Linda Chabucos-Galow, upon finding a woman who had been dead for two weeks

(read full Chicago Tribune story here)

Knowledge, or lack thereof

If you're keeping score, that's two major religions the Democrats lack a working knowledge of -- Christianity and Islam.

- Ann Coulter (read her full comments here)

Sea serpent

"I was diving on Juno Ledge. That's about a mile off shore of Juno Beach. At first I thought it was a sea cucumber although no one's every seen one stretched 7 to 10 feet the way this one was. It's sort of grey and putty like and very smooth and taffy like in the way it stretches. Some of my friends and I have sort of dubbed it the living intestine."

- Jay Garbose, quoted by WPTV.com (read story here)

Odd burial

Yesterday, I observed a gray squirrel burying something in my garden.

Something about it did not look right, so I went over to examine the burial site.

The squirrel had buried two freshly killed baby cottontail rabbits.

This was the first time I have ever seen this.

In a brief search of the Internet, I could not find any references to this behavior.

Hexagon on Saturn

The universe is a strange, mysterious and glorious place. An unusual event has taken place at the North Pole of the planet Saturn. A huge weather system over the pole has created a bizarre hexagon-shaped formation within the center of the massive storm.

- sliceofscifi.com (read story here)

Very strange.

Chemistry

www.americanchemistry.com

There were some "chemistry makes our lives better" type ads on Wednesday Night Fights last night.

Big crime in Hales Corners

A 46-year-old man was arrested for retail theft and obstruction after he allegedly took a package of hamburger and then provided police with a false name....

- Hales Corners police report, Thursday May 3, 2007, Oak Creek-Franklin-Greendale-Hales Corners NOW

This was the most serious crime committed in the village in an entire week.