Miscellaneous.

It sounds like a right-to-life student group engaged in some deception in trying to discredit an Idaho Planned Parenthood.
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I have started to read a biography of actress Barbara Payton, and of course actor Tom Neal was a big part of her life. He turned out even worse than she did, as noted in this profile about him.

He killed his third wife and went to prison, getting out shortly before his death in 1972.

This was in the days before O.J. Simpson and Claudine Longet.
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Oh, shit.

Now the Powerball is down to a mere $15 million.

I might as well try the local casinos and see if I can win $18 million.
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A rash of pet poisonings have residents worried and wondering why anybody would do such a sick thing.
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It's mighty tough to buy a bra that hasn't been made in a sweatshop.
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Howard Metzenbaum was remembered at a funeral service today as a champion of civil rights, among other things.
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Since

I have been laid up with this crap, which seems to be slowly going away--acute sinusitis can hang on for as long as three or four weeks--I have been reading a lot and watching DVDs.

I decided to order a book about the tragic actress Barbara Payton, who was better known for having been at the center of the famous brawl between actors Tom Neal and Franchot Tone than for her acting ability. After the negative fallout from this episode, Payton's career slid and finally ended. She ended up on the skids, even resorting to prostitution to make ends meet.

Payton died when she was only 39 years old in 1967. A recent biography has been written about her, and her son, who is now 60, has given it high praise (on Amazon.com). Payton wrote an autobiography some years before her death, and at some point I will get that as well.