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Toronto’s National Post reported in August on the executive seminars offered by the local firm Case Solutions, which cost over $12,000 and encourage clients to use specialized Lego blocks to build metaphorical representations of their companies’ strengths and weaknesses. One executive, intending to portray himself as a multitasker, built an octopus wearing a hard hat and holding a skeleton; according to the Post, the skeleton symbolized “problems from the past” and the hard hat “his tendency to protect himself from sales quotas.” People use the blocks, said one Lego advocate, “to make a statement that they might not have been able to make before.”
In September, Robert Bouslaugh dropped out of the race for sheriff in La Plata County, Colorado, after allegedly shooting a teen gang member to death in Albuquerque, New Mexico, while wearing a blouse and skirt. Bouslaugh was leaving an adult bookstore when the teen attacked him, stole his purse, and forced him into his own rental car at gunpoint to look for an ATM; Bouslaugh explained the drag by saying he’d been working undercover but claimed he could not elaborate.
Trademark Blues
In Duarte, California, Beckman Research Institute investigators developed genetically engineered male flies that became homosexual whenever the temperature was raised above 86 degrees….On U.S. 160 near Kayenta, Arizona, a 54-year-old truck driver became the latest person to be killed by a flying cow; he crashed after another driver knocked the animal into his vehicle….And Reuters reported that a 40-year-old Yemeni man who’d left his wife of 15 years because of her “screaming and endless disputes” had chosen a deaf-mute woman as his new bride.
