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Free Baumann campaign officially launched

Free Baumann

The official Free Baumann campaign has been officially launched. Please pledge your donations to liberate the Columbus hero.

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Baumann arrested smuggling khat

Baumann was arrested last night near Port Columbus Airport for smuggling a substance knows as “khat” into the United States.

I received a collect call from some jail last night and thought it was a wrong number. But after talking to Taco this morning, who answered his early morning call, I learned the truth.

Apparently, Baumann was approached from Somalians some months ago to transport khat from Europe to Columbus so it may be distributed throughout Ohio.

According to Wikipedia, khat is a plant that when chewed, produces excitement and euphoria.

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Comfest: Khat-tales, Boxers & Breasts

ComfestThe problem with Comfest, an annual community festival in Columbus, is that there are just not enough beer tents and port-o-lets to accommodate the crowd that attends.

After a 20-minute wait to fill your 32-ounce plastic Comfest cup, you can sit on your blanket in the grass for about a half-hour before you get the urge to tinkle. So you get in line to use the restroom, which takes another 20 minutes. By the time you use the restroom, your beer is empty because you drank it faster than normally while you were bored stiff waiting in the bathroom line. So now, you have to get back in the beer line.

And so on. And so on.

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