Washington is wrong too. Toplessness is legal unless a prosecutor can prove to a unanimous jury beyond a reasonable doubt that it was done for the purpose of arousing purient interest or to offend. Have you heard of the Fremont Solstice Parade?
When I was 7 and asked my father the same question, he said, "For the same reason that there's a North Pole and a South Pole, but not an East Pole and a West Pole."
The old Associated Press style manual had an entry, "burrow/burro," 'One is an ass, the other a hole in the ground. A good reporter knows the difference.' Here we have an illustration of that difference.
I agree with Ray. By the time you feel your hair stand on end, your body is going to do what it was hardwired to do. Fortunately for me it was to duck, while the lightning hit the fence around the tennis court.
Nice story, but there is at least one factual inaccuracy. "Parapsychologists define ghosts as 'people who died with unfinished business' -and Lincoln certainly fits the bill. The Confederacy had surrendered only five days before Lincoln's assassination, but the United States was in disarray." While Lee had surrendered the Army of Virginia to Grant five days before the assassination, none of the other Confederate armies had surrendered. Confederate armies were fighting in North Carolina (against Sherman), Alabama, and Texas. And Jefferson Davis was fleeing south from the captured Richmond with the remnants of the Confederate government when Lincoln died.
Maytag is a great representative of Iowa. It's owned by Whirlpool, a Michigan-based company. I'd nominate Winnebago, the manufacturer of motor homes, instead. Nothing says Iowa like, "let's leave." I used to tell people that the Winnebago Native Americans from Iowa were never given a reservation of their own, so they had to travel among the other tribes' reservations. They got so good at it, that they invented the Winnebago motor home.
The idea came to me when first watching Jurassic Park. I'd guess that the problem would be greater the longer the cloned animal had been extinct. (sort of like my problem with time travel movies - wouldn't the earth have moved in the interim?)
I've wondered about the feasability of such cloning, given the microfauna necessary in a gut to allow digestion. Just because we may be able to clone a mammoth, would the current species of intestinal microfauna work with the ancient digestive system?
http://flickeryflicks.blogspot.com/2008/01/on-writing-blazing-saddles.html
http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto
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Nowhere to hide from Armageddon, so I suggest booking a flight to Megiddo for front-row seats.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=41605