Food, Glorious Food!

From the St. Petersburg Times:

HUDSON - Here's how it worked, authorities say: The four entered the grocery store as a team. They wore the backpacks. Peter Riotis did the stuffing, packing their bags with the store's food. Then they'd be sent to a waiting vehicle outside.

There, the backpacks were emptied. Then they'd be sent back into the store to do it again.

Riotis, 43, was the alleged ringleader.

The ages of his alleged accomplices: 6, 10 and 12.

The Hudson man used the children to shoplift food, according to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, and Friday he was cited for retail petty theft and three counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Riotis apologized and offered to pay for all the items, the report said. Instead, he was handcuffed and taken out of the store.

But when deputies tried to put Riotis into the back seat of the sheriff's cruiser, they had a problem: He's 5 feet 8 inches, 470 pounds, the report said.

Howdy Neighbor!

Uh, yeah. Me, not so much.

"When they killed my dog and sold him to a dog meat restaurant I was so angry, but the longer I lived there the more I built up a tolerance and an understanding of a different culture."

From the Scotsman.

Be Like Mike

Q: What do Harriet Miers, Martha Stewart, President Bush and Mike Mussina have in common?

A: None of them has ever won a World Series.

In 2000 the Yankees won their fourth World Series in five years. In that off-season they signed Mike Mussina as a free agent. In the five years since then they have not won the World Series. Coincidence?

And while I'm asking questions, why doesn't Randy Johnson object when people call him the Big Eunuch? You'd think it would bother him greatly. Or maybe not.

That's What I'm Talking About!

The Yankees lose! Theeeeeeeeee Yankees lose!

Devalued Currency

This is what $200 million buys you nowadays.

We Are Penn State!

Ohio State 10 Penn State 17

I'd pay good money to see Lee Corso eat his Buckeye mascot hat.