Link to today's Huffington Post story by the stooge about…


a supposedly haunted blast furnace in Alabama, among other paranormal stuff.

The stooge is being sent to Nevada to check out military bases/new weaponry and other national-security-related gizmos, and, if permitted to use electronic communication devices (not a given), plans to file report-lets at: http://twitter.com/kqthomson.


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For a new novel by the stooge being published in March by Doubleday. Comments appreciated, shipmates. Send ’em to the email listed on the Contacts page (this will test that, too).

Ahoy, shipmates and/or the googlerobot! Good news (especially for my creditors): I am still among the living. If you are, I hope that you are well; please post your status. Even if you're behind bars, that's cool.

Extra Credit for anyone who knows the single common denominator of the following:

Bazega
Boulkiemde
Kenedougou
Loroum
Namentenga
Tapoa
Zondoma
Zoundweogo

What do these people reportedly have in common, other than that they are people and well-known?

Jennifer Aniston
Bing Crosby
Laura Bush
The Beatles
Mayor Michael Bloomberg
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Johnny Carson
President Bill Clinton
Johnny Depp
Harrison Ford
Bill Gates
President Andrew Jackson
President Thomas Jefferson
Steve Jobs
President John Kennedy
Stephen King
Ann Landers
President James Madison
Madonna
John Stuart Mill
President James Monroe
Mozart
Friedrich Nietzsche
Peggy Noonan
President Barack Obama
Sarah Palin
Governor George Pataki
Pablo Picasso
President Franklin Pierce
Brad Pitt
Oliver Sacks
Arnold Schwarzenegger
William Shakespeare
Barbra Streisand
George Soros
President Zachary Taylor
Queen Victoria
President George Washington
John Wayne



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