There was a double murderer in Ohio who was sentenced to death. He argued that his morbid obesity made lethal injection inhumane since it would be difficult to find a vein amid all his blubber, in essence, that he was too fat to die. Ohio didn’t buy it, and had him injected with the lethal […]
TOO FAT TO DIE AND OTHER FALSE ASSUMPTIONS Read More »
All it takes to become an alien is to cross a border. You might feel exactly the same, but to the people on the other side of that imaginary line, you are exotic and different. Unless you happen to be Canadian, in which case no one will notice you at all.
LIFE EXPLAINED, PART 197 Read More »
There truly is magic in this world. Magicians, too, and they seem to be working together. How else could a handful of seemingly ordinary men make trillions of dollars disappear in the space of a few weeks? And their magic act has also included making Republican prospects for retaining the White House vanish into thin
FINANCIAL MAGICIANS (DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME, BOYS AND GIRLS!) Read More »
The internet is full of information; good, solid information along with the usual drivel that’s always circulated through any information medium. Like with anything else, it’s not so hard to separate the factual from the ridiculous. It’s pretty amazing and something no one could have predicted a scant 20 years ago. Look at all the
YOU HAVE TO WONDER Read More »
Other than sex, is there any other area of human endeavor that is so drastically affected by people’s mood swings as our economy? One keeps hearing that all that is needed for the world to climb out of this disastrous banking crisis is for people to have confidence in the markets again. This in spite
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And so an era is over. Joe Torre turned down a pay cut to manage the Yankees again this year, ending a remarkable 12 year run as the most successful baseball manager of his era. The success is not really as remarkable as lasting 12 years as Yankee manager since George Steinbrenner bought the team
SAY IT AIN’T SO, JOE Read More »
Woke up this morning feeling real good. Don’t know why and don’t want to ask, I just do. Most mornings I wake up in a grumpy fog, stumbing around until I’ve had a couple of cups of Joe, and even then it takes a while to come back to my normal happy-go-lucky self. I walk
Used to be that only 2 presidents got A Day, and they were our Top 2 – Abraham Lincoln (February 12) and George Washington (February 22), and on their actual birthdays, which were were both national holidays no matter what day of the week on which they happened to fall, instead of what we have today, PRESIDENTS
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 2/20/23 – PRESIDENTS DAY! Read More »
