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23 Dec 2009 13:11

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Culture: The Balloon Boy’s parents are headed to jail. Hooray!

  • 90 days for Richard Heene – 60 of those in work release during the day
  • 20 days for Mayumi Heene – her sentence starts after his
  • zip, zilch the amount of profit the couple can make on the story source
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23 Dec 2009 09:26

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Politics: Guy nearly arrested in D.C. snowball fight has great insight

  • That guy in the drab, olive coat and fuzzy wool cap being dragged through the crowd by the detective, shouting, ‘I didn’t throw that snowball’? Yeah, that’s me. At my finest.
  • Daniel Schramm • Describing what he went through after being detained by the police officer who brought a gun to a snowball fight in D.C. on Saturday. Schramm, who wrote a column for The Washington Post on the incident, tried to look at what happened from a big-picture perspective, comparing the incident to his day job as an environmental lawyer. It’s a good read. source
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