"� E. Barrett Prettyman ..." Here's a link to the Washington Post article about how the now-famous courthouse got its name.
Mullfotos of the Day
All right. Maybe I'm being too picky here, but how would someone who needed to learn English know that these Rosetta Stone lessons at Reagan National Airport were for "English."
Let's turn it around. Let's say you arrived at the airport in Beijing and you saw a Rosetta Stone lesson package - in Chinese - which said "Chinese."
How would you know that's what it said if you didn't recognize Chinese characters in the first place?
Do you now understand why I get so few invitations to peoples homes?
Catchy Caption of the Day
Actual Caption:
The 'Pueblo Fantasma' or ghost town is seen at the Catorce sierra near the old mining town of Real de Catorce, Mexico, Feb. 23, 2007.
Using just a driver's license or birth certificate, Americans can cross the border and spend a day buying trinkets and even tequila in one of Mexico's dozens of bordertowns, all scattered between Tijuana and Matamoros.
And ... you can bring back as many relatives as you can carry.
(AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)