The Beer Barrel

Sounds like someone had too much time on their hands, and little common sense insofar as what they stocked their "pirate ship" with.

Treehouse pirate ship plundered by scallywags

3 hrs ago
There aren't many high-seas hijinks in landlocked Arizona. But the owner of the perhaps the...

A simple sacrifice to the volcano god could have averted needless tragedy. Ehmmm...

6 killed as Indonesian volcano erupts, thousands evacuated


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The photo taken from the Maurole district of East Nusa Tenggara province with a camera phone shows Mount Rokatenda volcano spewing a huge column of hot ash...

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Forty to 50 House Republicans will support immigration reform, Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) predicted Thursday. Gutiérrez said many of the Republicans supportive of immigration reform don’t want to be identified, but he insisted they would support comprehensive immigration reform. “If they ask me today, go...

The Portland Press Herald fired back at Maine Gov. Paul LePage saying the governor has a “misguided sense of humor” after he said Friday he’d like to blow up the newspaper’s building. “That kind of a joke is irresponsible in this day and age, especially when it comes from the leader of our state,” Press Herald Publisher...

HUD Proposes Plan to Racially, Economically Integrate Neighborhoods

Move would allow Obama administration to institute policies that would better integrate communities

By Elizabeth Flock
August 9, 2013


Early morning traffic in...