According to
CNN, the male gender will surrender its imperative to procreate for pizza. A Cape Cod urology practice is offering a free
pizza to any patient scheduling a vasectomy during the month of March. They seem to be suggesting that the obsession
with televised basketball will over-ride any romance that might surface for
most males; so why not celebrate with surgery and pizza.
Napoleon
famously credited logistics with winning wars.
Apparently logistics my also prevent procreation. This sets the bar to a new low. Of all the valid reasons for having a
vasectomy, obtaining a “free” pizza never entered the arena.
Thunderstorms
entered the region about 2000 hours last night and remained until about 2300
hours. The forecast for this evening
includes a 50% probability of thunderstorms with high temperature expected to
reach79°F.
Overlooked
fact of the day: In 1804, Jim Bridger
was born in Richmond VA.
At the age of
17, the apprenticed blacksmith signed on with the Ashley-Henry expedition, leaving
St. Louis to trap for beaver pelts. He
had the good fortune to be present at many turning points in the American fur
trade. He eventually became a part owner
in the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, competing with the Hudson’s Bay Company and
the American Fur Company for the rapidly dwindling supply of beaver pelts. His decision to quit trapping in order to
establish Fort Bridger on the Green River to accommodate immigrant wagon trains
on the Oregon Trail signaled the demise of beaver trapping in the American
west.
Bridger was a
truly unique and important figure in the exploration of the American west. While he carried a map of the Rocky Mountain
West in his head, he eventually lost his health and moved to a small farm in
what is now Westport MO. By the time of
his death at 77 years of age, his vision had deteriorated so much that he would
become lost on his own farm.
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