There Is No Place Like Home for the Holidays (or Nerf Wars)

 

And this is only a part of the total arsenal!

This is what goes on at night in my house when we have company.  And when I say night, I mean from the time I go to bed until the alarm.  Some people get depressed when the holidays end and they have to go back to work.  I'm ecstatic!  I can finally get some rest.

Too Much Holiday Spirits - Drunken Santa in Erie PA

Deja Vu - Another Weiner Moment

We've seen this before. (click on the link to see how this is Congressman Weiner's habit to avoid the question).

It's funny with O'Reilly, but I'd be too afraid that Megyn would slap the crap out of me to try this with her. But she keeps her cool.

Perspective is Everything

Look at the picture above and you can see where this driver broke through the guardrail, on the right side of the culvert, where the people are standing on the road, pointing.

The pick-up was traveling about 75 mph from right to left when it crashed through the guardrail.

It flipped end-over-end bounced off and across the culvert outlet, and landed right side up on the left side of the culvert, facing the opposite direction from which the driver was traveling.

The 22-year-old driver and his 18-year-old passenger were unhurt except for minor cuts and bruises.

Just outside Flagstaff , AZ , on U.S. Hwy 100.

Click here to see the rest of the story.

Erie ranked among Brainiest Bastions -- sort of

By VALERIE MYERS

valerie.myers@timesnews.com

Erie has made the list of the 200 "Brainiest Bastions" in the country.

The bad news is that the city made the bottom half of the list -- for "negative brainpower."

That assessment by online business journal Portfolio.com is based on educational attainment. Most Erie area residents are not college-educated, according to U.S. Census data used in the study.

Erie is ranked at 143 on the "Brainiest" list. Cities ranked at 99 through 200 had negative scores for a minority of college-educated residents.

Erie County Executive Barry Grossman called the new rankings "not surprising" and said that they underline previous studies with similar findings and underscore the need for a community college.

"Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, both with very active, very successful community colleges, are ahead of us in this ranking," Grossman said. "Here, we commission these kind of reports, pay money for them, and they all say we need a community college. Then we ignore them, as if, what do they know. And we're behind."

Pittsburgh, Harrisburg and Philadelphia are ranked among the nation's "Brainiest" cities by Portfolio.com. College graduates outnumber high school-only graduates and high school dropouts in all three cities, according to census data.

In the Erie area, 8.61 percent of residents have a graduate or professional degree; 15.35 percent have bachelor's degrees; and 23.83 percent have associate degrees or some college education, according to census data.

More area residents, a combined 52.21 percent, have not earned a high school diploma or did not continue their education beyond high school.

That's bad news economically as well as educationally, said Jim Kurre, associate professor of economics at Penn State Behrend and director of the Economic Research Institute of Erie.