Gaithersburg, Maryland At Scot Gas, Darnestown Road, the high school boys pumping gas would snicker at the rednecks. Every Saturday night there was Earl, puckering his liquor-smashed face to announce that he was driving across …
May 9, 2012
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Community Blog
Blogs: Who Reads 'Em?
July 1, 2011 · Twister
Having spent quite some time on the Reader website, for many years as a reader, then a participant, I am winding down, getting tired, allocating my time to other things. It has been an interesting experiment. Here are some things …
Community Blog
Blogged Up?
July 5, 2011 · Twister
Rather than plumbing the depths of the potential of the Internet and its denizens, editors have commonly looked upon the blogging phenomenon as a grand opportunity—FINALLY, a way to sweep all that wannabe stuff that used to come over the …
Community Blog
Pedestrian Matters
July 26, 2011 · Twister
The ambulance beat me there, but not by much. I threw the keys to my car to a friend and crawled into the back and held her hand. She was conscious. What a relief! I kept her talking. The bicyclist …
Community Blog
raw
April 15, 2012 · richzombie
strip me raw of all i own trade you , for all i've known people large and small laughs smiles twinkling eyes piggy back rides stops on a map i don't need a shirt shoes pants or painted rocks i …
Chargers
Seau Apparent Suicide Could be Watershed NFL Event
May 2, 2012 · Don Bauder
If it turns out that former Chargers great Junior Seau indeed committed suicide, and that he shot himself in the chest so that his brain could be examined for symptoms of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), San Diego will be in …
Finding It in Shoshone, California
For the record: I’m not a fancy, gotta-have-posh type of woman; I’m OK with “rough around the edges.” I’m instinctively drawn to character, whether quaint and endearing or quirky and eclectic. I like spice, color …
May 10, 2012
Lawyer Steigerwalt Suspended a Year
May 19, 2012 · Don Bauder
The State Bar of California has suspended attorney Kerry Steigerwalt for one year, according to the Union-Tribune. He will also be on probation for two years. As detailed in my Reader columns of July 21, 2010, and June 22, 2011, …