THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, July 22, 1996 TAG: 9607200009
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A6 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: 63 lines
They said it would be a cold day in hell before Virginia Beach had a Republican judge but it was another kind of spectacular weather event which greeted the first member of the GOP to take the oath of office.
An uninvited guest, Hurricane Bertha, pounded the city Friday, July 12, as A. Joseph Canada Jr. was sworn in as a Juvenile and Domestic Relations judge.
Invited guests braved tropical-force winds, lashing rain and weather prognosticators predicting doom and gloom as they made their way to the Virginia Beach Center for the Arts for a reception. There, scores of Republicans toasted their good fortune with champagne, and a handful of Democrats tried very hard to be good sports about finally being forced to share the judicial wealth. A long, long, long shot
Ross Perot bought and paid for the Reform Party. Its hierarchy is dominated by people loyal to Perot. In fact, he pays its employees.
Now Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm, usually known as a pessimist, says he'll seek the Reform Party's nomination for the presidency, a nomination Perot also seeks.
Lamm is bringing new meaning to the phrase ``against long odds.'' A dead horse will win the Kentucky Derby before anybody besides Perot receives the Reform Party presidential nomination. Perot did not spend millions for someone else's greater glory. Hairy men are smarter
Believe it or not, a psychiatrist has been studying the relationship between body hair and intelligence for 22 years.
He recently reported that men with hair on their chests and backs tend to be brighter than less-hairy men. There are always exceptions. Albert Einstein had little body hair, for example. But a study of 117 members of Mensa, the organization of self-proclaimed geniuses, showed a tendency among the males to thick body hair. The psychiatrist's research among American medical students found that 45 percent of male trainee doctors were ``very hairy,'' compared with less than 10 percent of men generally.
Somewhere, we presume, a psychiatrist is spending his or her adult life studying whether men who grunt a lot are smarter or dumber than average. We can wait to hear the results. A doggone shame
They say every dog must have his day. Rusty the beagle, of Legnum, Va., recently had his.
Rusty, who suffered from a severe skin condition, tunneled out from under his owner's fence. As a result of what happened next, his master is facing assault and destruction-of-property charges, and the manager of the local animal pound has resigned.
It all began when Rusty escaped from the Lee-family yard.
Animal-control officers caught the dog and took him to the pound, whereupon he was immediately given a lethal injection because he appeared to be sick. Healthy dogs are kept seven days.
By the time Ronald Lee phoned the pound the next day looking for Rusty, his beagle was in a plastic bag, awaiting disposal.
Lee drove to the pound where he allegedly went on a rampage, tossing a copier machine and threatening workers.
All he wanted, he said, was an apology. The manager of the shelter who gave Rusty the shot never said she was sorry. She did, however, quit. by CNB