Thursday Smorgasbord

All the news that's fit to print type and hit the "publish" button:

• Remember the blind guy who was caught driving drunk? He's been caught again.


• A woman attacked a man in a Seatlle karaoke bar because she didn't like the way he was singing a Coldplay song.


• Happy cat: A New Jersey feline survived a house fire by hiding in the couch.


• Not-so-happy cat: A man who was upset with his ex-girlfriend took it out on her cat by castrating it with a box cutter.


• Someone who robbed a bakery in Phoenix took several boxes of cupcakes, but left the cash.


• A New Hampshire homeowner called police after she saw a couple having sex on her trampoline.


• A British university lecturer hopes to improve his students' spelling performances by publicly shaming them; in other words, he plans to publish the most egregious of their errors in a professional journal.


• Interesting thought for today: What would have happened if Elvis had never been born?

Blowing out the candle (singular): Happy birthday to my youngest nephew Micah, who's a year old today. Cute baby picture here.