Secrets of the City

So apparently there was once a female Charlie Brown named Charlotte Braun, but she wasn’t very popular and Schulz wasn’t happy with her. That didn’t stop him, however, from responding to a letter criticizing her by telling an irate letter writer that “you and your friends will have the death of an innocent child on your conscience” and then drawing a picture of Braun with an axe in her head. (Via)

From the PiPress: A Duluth native is facing felony assault and attempted manslaughter charges in Greeley, Colo., for allegedly shooting a friend in the head while the two checked football scores on a home computer. …

According to the Greeley Tribune, Pollard, who told police he had about six beers and a couple of shots of alcohol at a bar and another beer when he got home, had taken the handgun and pointed it at Knorr. Pollard told police he thought the safety was on as he pulled the trigger once and it just clicked, the Greeley Tribune reported. So he pulled the trigger again, shooting Knorr.

From the Strib: A 25-year-old mother of four fatally shot the children’s father in the back of the head in their northern Minnesota home and then tried to pin some of the blame on their 3-year-old son before confessing, according to charges filed Monday.

My favorite part of the story is that she then went to Mizpah to find a new father for her children. Is there some sort of father store in Mizpah?

The problem is a costume they put up on their Web page showing a space alien holding a green card. Some call it offensive. Some think it’s funny. Target says it was a mistake.

And now, as City Pages points out, some want to use it for political purposes.

Is something a little different about MnSpeak today?

A fellow went into a Florida emergency room with a bullet hole in his chest, but was released the next, fairly uninjured. How? The Medtronic Defibrillator in his chest stopped the bullet: “Another way defibrillators prevent sudden death,” Fisher wrote. “It seems they can stop bullets.”

I don’t even know what to say about this, so I’ll just offer the quote, in entirety: And as a matter of fact, the bill goes on to say what’s going to go on — comprehensive primary health services, physicals, treatment of minor acute medical conditions, referrals to follow-up for specialty care — is that abortion? Does that mean that someone’s 13 year-old daughter could walk into a sex clinic, have a pregnancy test done, be taken away to the local Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, have their abortion, be back and go home on the school bus that night? Mom and dad are never the wiser.

From the Rochester Post-Bulletin: A man who is in Rochester for a wedding is in custody for allegedly getting mad at one of the city’s goose statues, “just because it was a goose.

A bigger picture of the Goose is on Mediation. Would you hit that thing?

Yes, you heard me right — A Michele Bachmann action figure: The $39.95 Bachmann action figure will share the catalog with Rod Blagojevich, (a $149.95 limited edition figure), Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (sporting a t-shirt that reads “Let them eat yellow cake”), Joe the Plumber (with his own custom-made crow bar), and a talking Joe Wilson, among others.

Probably not, but at least one forensic expert think it might: Not only does Wolter believe the stone is real and that it predates Christopher Columbus by more than 130 years, he also has come to the startling conclusion that the stone was carved by the Order of the Knights Templar, a medieval European military group, as a land claim for much of eastern North America.

Read on for the Holy Grain connection, which is metaphoric, rather than literal.