Merry Federally Recognized Holiday of December 25th That Shall Remain Nameless!
I remember when I was a kid living on the outskirts of Detroit, in Taylor in the early 1970s, in early December, aching for snow so badly that it hurt.…
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Almost Top 10 Christmas Songs: guest column
Everybody will recognize long-time contributer Mike D. of the Western Institute for Study of the Environment (a great site people should browse over to). He generously contributed the following list…
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“I was all, like—awugh.”
I heard that conversation yesterday at a restaurant where I was having lunch. Two women sat together at a table talking on their cell phones. Presumably, they were talking not…
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Set up your recorders: tomorrow’s the day!
For those readers in the States and Canada (and elsewhere?) who get the History channel, tomorrow, Tuesday 23 December, is The Big Day. I'll be on the show Weird US…
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Wrestlers sponsor “earth hour”
I got an email---a press release---from a guy named Dan Forman from the WWF asking me to get the word out about "earth hour." Up till now, I had no…
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Unnecessary hypervigilance in parks: no unaccompanied adults!
I think that sign came from England. Here in the States, we have the similar sign but in picture form---a lone adult with a circle around him and a slash…
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Here’s a good idea!
The situation is this: New Yorkers are loosing their jobs at a rate not seen since perhaps the Great Depression. The housing market is still heading downwards. People have less,…
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What is the worst crime?
Depends on what you mean by worst. If it means what most of it think it means---individual agony and suffering---then the culprits for worst are obvious: murder, torture and other…
