1. A Bank of America branch in Florida turns away a man born without arms because he can’t provide a thumbprint for identification purposes. Where is Harry Golden when we need him?
2. The Harry Golden Rule (credit Calvin Trillin.): “In present-day America it’s very difficult, when commenting on events of the day, to invent something so bizarre that it might not actually come to pass while your piece is still on the presses.”
3. McDonnell releases his Robbing Peter to Pay Paul Education Plan. (Uh…Bob…you’ll get more traction running on your thesis.)
4. Last confirmed sighting of the Dodo Bird was in 1662. Update: Flocks of them spotted in Powhatan and Dinwiddie, roosting at the school boards.
5. Jody, send up a flare so we can find you.
6. Dove season opens at noon tomorrow. I’ll be with the gang at John Black’s farm in Charles City County.
7. Yo, Phil! Don’t forget that ‘Thank You’ note to the thesis folks.
8. These town halls remind me of the time I (stupidly) wandered into a K-Mart in Danville the Friday after Thanksgiving. Thought I had stumbled into some of that German Shepherd film footage from Selma in the Sixties.
9. Give a man with Parkinson’s a loaded shotgun? Hey, I get all the room I want in a crowded dove field!
10. Meadows of Dan, where Heaven is a local call. (Thank you, Betty Jolly)
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