Leaping into the news

It's Leap Day so let's take the plunge and have a quick look at news you may or may not have noticed.

Florida is doing something about their voting machines.  Finally.  Having them smashed up and sold for parts.

Drudge and some German news organization outed Prince Harry's military placement in Afghanistan.  Then every other news agency in the world followed suit.  Do they have any pang of conscience at all this morning?

The St. Louis area is going to get a new bridge, but not a Major League Soccer team.

Fond memories of the Chevy Cavalier Z-24 from Car Lust.  We had the same black convertible Z-24 pictured in the story (without that bulky front end thing) for 13 years.  Two engines, two transmissions, two tops, 3 back windows...we loved it, but it finally died for good on interstate 44 just east of Tulsa Oklahoma in August of 2001.  Ah.

Body Worlds3, an exhibit at the St. Louis Science Center is finishing up its run this weekend.  The Exhibit used actual bodies donated to science in various forms of human movement so that observers could see how muscles and tendons and bones actually worked.  The constant barrage of ads for this show creeped me out and I for one am glad to see it coming to an end.

Comments

[Ron]

Happy Birthday to all those born today. Anyone out there celebrating a leap year birthday?

[Dawn]

I remember how thrilled you were when you came home with your Z 24, to this day when I see one or hear the unique sound of that car I think of you. Isn't that the car you had when Katie was learning to drive?

[diane]

Yep, Katie learned on and both she and Lizzie drove it to high school. I sure miss that car.

[KUKIMBIA]

I liked the Camaro better. Nicer color, too.

KT, how long of a walk is it from Tulsa to Waco??

[Diane]

Ah, the camaro, the car dale made me sell in favor of the mercury cougar. Loved that car too except for all the hit and run drivers along 15th street in the Heights who kept crashing into to during the night.