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I’m starting off this week’s news roundup with all the important artistic, scientific and intellectual news, but I want those of you with short attention spans to know that later in this column there’s stuff about PHOTOS OF NAKED WOMEN. I’m not the type to exploit the story about PHOTOS OF NAKED WOMEN by putting it first, ahead of many more significant items, in a blatant attempt to suck in more readers. That wouldn’t be in the Down East tradition. Rather, it would be pandering to the lowest common denominator. If you prefer lurid material, such as PHOTOS OF NAKED WOMEN, I suggest you try some other Web site with far lower standards.
Or you could just scroll down a few paragraphs.
Wait! Anyone left? They’re going to miss the final epic confrontation between the Waterville Police Department and … a little pig. For a month, a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig had been roaming around the Colby College campus and vicinity, ever since it escaped from a student barbeque. (It was there for laughs, not as the main course.) The pig was attracted to a nearby home by offers of French fries, but efforts to grab it were unsuccessful. So, on June 21, the cops used a Taser.
(No bacon jokes, please.) The porker was captured and is headed to a new home at a preschool in Casco, where there’s another pig, as well as goats, llamas, ducks and donkeys.
Barely had the ham on the lam been put in the slam, when word came down that about 60,000 bees from Wolfe’s Neck Farm in Freeport had made their own bid for free-range status.
Posted on Monday, June 30, 2008 in Permalink
