2/14: Morning Communique

CITY PAGES BLOGS

Discuss last night's Wolves/Toronto game with Britt Robson at Balls!

Steve Monaco has last week's Monday Movie Quiz winners at Couch Pundit.

THESE DAYS

An Australian tourist has been charged with assault after telling a Texas woman to stop talking on her mobile phone during a screening of Brokeback Mountain.

Sweden is to take the biggest energy step of any advanced Western economy by trying to wean itself off oil completely within 15 years - without building a new generation of nuclear power stations.

By granting sports commentator Al Michaels his exit to NBC, The Walt Disney Co., ABC's parent company, will get back a piece of its history from NBC Universal: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, the first animated character created by Disney and the forerunner to Mickey Mouse.

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

Jeff & Jeremy are Twin Citizens who love sports more than life itself. Read their ramblings at Midwest Sports Rubes.

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TIME WASTERS

Valentines from a galaxy far, far away

The Obakemono Project: A Gaijin's Guide to the Fantastic Folk Monsters of Japan

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"An excellent, conscientious shot."

-- Katharine Armstrong, Texas rancher, describing the hunting prowess of Vice President Dick Cheney, who was on Armstrong's property when he shot campaign contributor Harry Whittington, 78, with 28-gauge pellets