Westward Ho!

Peanuts, By Charles Bukowski

I don't know how familiar you have to be with either cultural touchstone to find this funny, but I reckon "beloved comic strip + dirty-old-man poetry" is a winning combination however you slice it.

Additional Bukowski content: The LA Weekly on the unknown fate of Buk's bungalow at 5124 De Longpre Ave in East Hollywood.

Lambert-St. Louis International Airport

Via MeFi: an object lesson in airport expansion and its consequences.

Wyoming: Smarter Than The Rest of Us

Wyoming is ranked 49th out of 49 mainland U.S. states in terms of "average individual's added cancer risk, all sources" in this Scorecard study of States With Health Risks From Hazardous Air Pollutants. Apparently the state that gave us Matthew Shepard's killers and Dick Cheney is doing something right.