Fire destroys garage, surrounding land in Grafton
Staff Report
Modified: 4/28/2021 6:16:25 PM
GRAFTON A fire sparked by a battery charger destroyed a garage and spread to surrounding land Tuesday afternoon, according to Grafton Fire Chief John Babiarz.
No one was injured in the blaze, which was called in just before 4 p.m. at a home at 183 Bullocks Crossing Road. The fire had started in the detached garage and spread to the surrounding trees and land, burning just under an acre of the property, according to Babiarz. Though the flames reached the trees and melted part of a nearby power line, they didn’t reach the house.
BBC Science Focus Magazine In this extract from
A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town, author Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling explains how a sleuth of genius bears tore apart one US town. Published:
At first, the bears went unseen in the nighttime, like mischievous elves descending from the woods. But instead of mending shoes or spinning straw into gold, they cracked compost bins, tore open beehives, and licked small traces of beef tallow from backyard grills, only to disappear with the first hint of the rising sun.
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Bungtowners [residents of Burlingham, Ohio] watched uneasily as a series of raids in a century-old barn reduced a feral colony of hardy barn cats from a population of 20 to nought.
Every ideology produces its own brand of fanatics, but there’s something special about libertarianism.
I don’t mean that as an insult, either. I love libertarians! For the most part, they’re fun and interesting people. But they also tend to be cocksure about core principles in a way most people aren’t. If you’ve ever encountered a freshly minted Ayn Rand enthusiast, you know what I mean.
And yet one of the things that makes political philosophy so amusing is that it’s mostly abstract. You can’t really prove anything it’s just a never-ending argument about values. Every now and again, though, reality intervenes in a way that illustrates the absurdity of particular ideas.