Toward the end of the cold war, we learned that a deep resentment was percolating through Muscovites. After years of failing to ensure adequate transportation infrastructure for the city, a fast growing phalanx of frustrated Communist Party apparatchiks made the motorcade the city's status symbol of choice. Dozens of them zipped back and forth across the city; blocking intersections, running cars off the road and ignoring speed limits. The officials had solved their traffic problem by making everyone else's traffic problem that much worse.
Travel around the world, and you’ll find that when you tell folks you’re from Kentucky, they will immediately ask you about Colonel Harland Sanders, the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken. They won’t be terribly impressed when you tell them that KFC and their parent company, YUM!
• KFC is bringing the Colonel to Africa, big time. [Courier-Journal]
• New stadium…check. How about an NBA team to call it home? [Courier-Journal]
Blonde hair, blue eyes Miss World, Alexandria Mills, returns to the great city of Louisville. Mayor Jerry Abramson welcomed back, reigning Miss World, and honored her with the Distinguished Citizen Award. View the video of her being honored, her modeling video, and additional pictures.
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Louisville's Alexandria Mills (nope, never heard of her either) was crowned Miss World at the event's 60th annual pageant Saturday, Oct. 30 in Sanya, China.
From Mills's biography on the Miss World website:
