Today in Las Vegas, retired postal workers picketed to protest the plan to move to five-day mail delivery. I suppose this has something to do with the postal workers union wanting their members to make the maximum salaries. Personally, I could live without Saturday delivery if that is what the postal service needs to survive. Yes, it's nice to be able to receive and mail Netflix DVDs on Saturdays, but I'm willing to make the sacrifice. Actually, I have a feeling even if they do go through with this plan the USPS will still cry poor and make additional cutbacks in service over the next few years.

Other news from Sin City:

An 11 year-old child shot his 5 year-old nephew in the head with a gun he found in a box of toys. The children were visiting the home of a family friend and were sent down to the basement playroom to play with the toys. Five other guns found around the house were confiscated but nobody was arrested.

A 16 year-old Kingman, Arizona boy died from a gunshot wound to the head incurred while playing Russian Roulette. The gun was brought to the home by one of his little underage friends.

A 63 year-old man was jailed after he told the police he injected a 45 year-old woman with a fatal dose of heroin. It was $70 of heroin that she brought to his trailer house, and she had never used heroin before. Toxicology tests showed she had methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin in her system when she died.

Another story is about two murderers who were able to plead guilty to lesser charges just before their jury trial for killing a stranger in the common area of an apartment complex. Long story short, they fired guns at a couple of guys, one of whom was a stranger to them.

He ran from them bent over, and the bullets hit him in the buttocks, but traveled through his body to his heart, killing him.


Meanwhile, here at the ranch: