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Friday, January 11, 2008

666 is here

According to the editing function of this blog, this is post number 666.

It's the number of antichrist or Satan, I think. I do know that the Cabell County Schools transportation superintendent skipped "666" when assigning numbers to school buses because she didn't want the grief she would get from parents whose kids had to ride it.

When Bob Withers was a copyeditor here, I turned in a story that measured 66.6 inches. He told me he would change it somehow in order to correct the inch estimate.

Because 666 is linked so closely to evil, I have scoured our letters to the editor and listened to talk radio. I herewith give you the four most evil influences in our world today: