Not Thanks, but Probation for Fixing Typos on a Sign

PHOENIX (AP) — When it comes to marking up historic signs, good grammar is a bad defense.

Two self-styled vigilantes against typos who defaced a 60-year-old hand-painted sign at Grand Canyon National Park were sentenced to one year of probation and banned from national parks for a year.

The men, Jeff Deck, of Somerville, Mass., and Benjamin Herson, of Virginia Beach, both 28, pleaded guilty on Aug. 11 to damage done in March at the park’s Desert View Watchtower. The sign was made by Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter, the architect who designed the rustic 1930s watchtower and other Grand Canyon-area landmarks.

Mr. Deck and Mr. Herson toured the United States this spring, wiping out errors on government and private signs. They were interviewed by National Public Radio and The Chicago Tribune, which called them “a pair of Kerouacs armed with Sharpies and erasers and righteous indignation.”

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Daily Show offers early welcome to GOP delegates

Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” is already welcoming the Grand Old Party to next week’s Republican National Convention in St. Paul – sort of.

The fake news program has erected a billboard near the Twin Cities along I-494, picturing the show’s correspondents and the words “Welcome, Rich White Oligarchs.”

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Oligarchs?
 I’ll be honest, I had to look it up.

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NY Mag – Electopedia

A guide to (almost) everything there is to know about presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama, from the important issues (Best Speech) to the really important issues (Hairstyle). Electopedia will be updated regularly—look for new categories ripped from the headlines!

Lots of fun and interesting facts.

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Dog Saves Abandoned Baby

An eight-year-old dog has touched the hearts of Argentines by saving the life of an abandoned baby, placing him safely alongside her own new puppies.

The country’s media are calling him “the miracle baby”.

He was born prematurely to a 14-year-old girl in a shanty town outside the capital, Buenos Aires.

She is said to have panicked and abandoned the boy in a field, surrounded by wooden boxes and rubbish.

Then along came La China, reports say, the dog which somehow picked up the baby and carried her 50m to place him alongside her own puppies.

The dog’s owner reported hearing the child crying and finding him covered with a rag.

The baby, weighing 4kg (8lb 13oz), had some slight injuries, but no bite marks.

The owner called the police and the child is now being looked after by the authorities, while a decision is taken about his future.

The frightened mother appeared shortly after her baby was found.

The Argentine media has descended on the shanty town, talking of “the Argentine Romulus and Remus”, the founders of Rome, abandoned as babies and rescued by a wolf, nearly 3,000 years ago.

La China, worried about her own puppies, is reported to be petrified by her new found fame, and her owner says he is worried that she is not eating.

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