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mowing-lawn-clipart.webp employees surprise hardworking 13-year-old with new lawnmower

(in life, money, employment from 2020)

A Lowe's home improvement store in Tennessee surprised a hardworking 13-year-old with a brand new lawnmower after his mower broke down. Read, listen or watch the rest here at ... read more

netflix.webp action films on netflix

(in culture, movies-tv-video, humor from 2017)

Almost half of all action films on Netflix have a variation of this description: He thought he was retired, but has to do One. Last. Job! ... read more

auto-gyro.webp auto-gyros

(in life, travel, transportation from 2020) by don

I've seen this gyrocopter taking off and landing from the John C. Tune Metro airport. Maybe he's doing sales demos or something. Pretty cool looking. Read, listen or watch the rest here ... read more

joke-fda-deposit-box.webp thanks to the fda, you really have no idea what's in your food

(in life, health, food, safety from 2011)

It's been stuck this way since the early 1990s, when the FDA hired former Monsanto lawyer Michael Taylor to write the regulations, or lack thereof. ... read more

quiz-clipart.webp take this quiz

(in culture, people from 2014)

From somewhere on the Internet ... Name the five wealthiest people in the world. Name the last five Heisman Trophy winners. Name the last five winners of the Miss America pageant. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize. ... read more

snake-on-mossy-rock.webp snake in the creek

(in life, animals, wildlife, reptiles from 2010)

I almost stepped on a snake as Elizabeth and I came out of the creek. Yes, we were in the creek. Anyway, I yelled, Aaaah when he slithered past me toward her and into the water. She wanted to get a better look at him as he lay there ha ... read more

aldo-leopold-2.webp aldo leopold quote

(in culture, quotes, environment from 2022)

We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. -- Aldo Leopold ... read more


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us diabetes rates rise to nearly 1 in 6 adults
If food manufacturers would stop adding sugar to everything, it would help.

lapd didn't arrest the man riding around with a blowtorch for arson
Misleading headline. He WAS arrested and sits in jail, just not for arson.

study: not a single natural disaster can be blamed on climate change
Sounds about right.

mlb bans 2 fans who grabbed betts indefinitely
They were BANNED indefinitely, they didn't GRAB Betts indefinitely. Headline writing ain't what it used to be.

how much money you should save for a comfortable retirement
$7 million should just about do it.

wef adviser hariri: the planet no longer needs the "vast majority" of the population
Hariri actually used the word "world" not "planet," which is entirely different, but neither the world nor the planet ever did need anyone in particular. Still, everyone (other than murderers, rapists and pedophiles) has the right to exist, and elitists like Hariri can go straight back to hell.

australia drops plan to fine social media giants accused of enabling misinformation
This is the problem with the new use of the word "drop." I can't tell if they're announcing new plans or have stopped planning.

yankees' aaron judge and dodgers' shohei ohtani win mlb mvp awards
They earned it but both disappeared in the World Series.

is psychiatry fake science?
They never got it down to a science.

peanut the instagram-famous squirrel did not have rabies after all, state officials say
So, the authorities-experts-officials were wrong... again.

jury: workers fired for refusing covid shot to get more than $1 million each
Fantastic!

outnumbered by puppets: depopulated village in japan crafts dolls for sense of life
After the first three words, I thought this was an article about the US Congress.

wind from hurricane milton tears apart roof of tampa's tropicana field
Who approved/built such a flimsy roof in a hurricane-prone area?

so...what's the deal with gaza's polio vaccination campaign?
Good question.

new zealand: fear and the covid crisis. the speech that might have changed the world
Wow. Too bad it was never delivered.

china's rare earth monopoly: a strategic chokehold in the clean energy transition
The headline alone should tell you who's behind the clean energy scam.

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culture.webp CULTURE

 knots by anna nalick

(in culture, music from 2019)

Wow, great vocals. My current favorite Here it is at ... read more

 christopher hitchens quote

(in culture, quotes from 2022)

Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus and the feeling that you're bound to be okay because you're safely in the majority. -- Christopher Hitchens ... read more

 elon musk flooded with requests to buy facebook, linkedin and youtube to return free speech to those platforms

(in culture, humor, internet, social from 2022)

If you came here looking for an actual article, you'll be disappointed. The title has more words than the article, or did until I wrote this sentence. This is a joke, though I wouldn't be surprised to hear this is actually happening. Elo ... read more

 theodore roosevelt quote

(in culture, quotes from 2021)

Get action do things be sane don't fritter away your time create act take a place wherever you are and be somebody get action. -- Theodore Roosevel ... read more

 novels/novellas

(in culture, writing, books, novels from 2018)

Did I mention I've written a few novels/novellas?Another Way: Beyond the Status QuoA politically-incorrect manifesto. Anti-corporate crusader Dobie Pokorny wants to save the world. His old boss, Colonel Charonne, ... read more

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 contentment is

(in family, holmes, pets from 2013)

Contentment is lying in bed, social networking on my laptop, listening to my wife and daughter fight/tease each other in the other room, while I've got the cat cuddled up on my left and two out of three pugs cuddled up on my right. ... read more

 russian bureaucracy

(in family, adoption, holmes, travel from 2007)

Oh... my... God. Do not EVER lose that document they have you fill out on the plane before you land! Stapling it to your forehead would be less painful than what Galina, Liena and I went through today. Vika was tending to the other coup ... read more

 holiday world (2013)

(in family, holmes, elizabeth from 2013)

I rode a rollercoaster for the first time in I don't know how long. It was a blast! The Raven has been voted most awesome or whatever wooden coaster several times in the past ten years. The Voyage, now ... read more

 just another week to go

(in family, adoption, holmes, travel from 2007)

... maybe less! That cheers me up. That's assuming everything goes as planned ... and it WILL. I believe in positive thinking (when I'm desperate, anyway, because it leads to positive actions, which lead to positive results, or at least ... read more

 wednesday in astrakhan

(in family, adoption, holmes, travel from 2007)

We just got back from today's first visit with the child (we're not supposed to mention her name online). We'll be going back this afternoon. In the meantime, Tara's trying to catch up on her sleep. She had woken up around 5 this morning ... read more

 happy father's day

(in family, holmes, elizabeth, holidays from 2012)

My daughter just made my day. Here's her card to me. ... read more

life-clipart.webp LIFE

 disney heiress nails it

(in life, money, employment from 2019)

We could not agree more. See Disney heiress calls CEO Bob Iger's $65 million pay package 'insane. 'When ... read more

 the 1930s chicago plan vs the american monetary act

(in life, money, economy from 2012)

If the purpose of money and credit were to discourage the exchange of goods and services, to destroy periodically the wealth produced, to frustrate and trip those who save, our present monetary system does that most effectively! ... read more

 aetna reverses its decision

(in life, health, insurance from 2010)

My insurance company, Aetna, which denied a $10,000 medical claim last year, has finally reversed its decision (after my second appeal) and decided to process the claim again. Woo-hoo!Let's see how it actually sh ... read more

 sepsis, and how your local hospital scores

(in life, health, healthcare from 2022)

A good tool to see how well your local hospitals rate as far as MRSA/sepsis-caused deaths is this CMS government website. To make it more readable, you can narrow down the columns to just Hospit ... read more

 rapid virus recovery

(in life, health, tech, covid from 2021)

Frightened with which way to turn? Heard about all the deaths from patients who went to the hospital and died of ventilator-induced lung trauma? During the early part of the pandemic, mortality rates were as high as 97% for covid-19 infec ... read more

newspaper.webp NEWSLETTER

 holmes family newsletter vol 6 no 6

(in family, holmes, newsletter from 1994)

Coyote BreathVol. 6 No. 6, October 26, 1994 Don rides to DenverIn August, Don rode his motorcycl ... read more

 holmes family newsletter vol 1 no 8

(in family, holmes, newsletter from 1989)

The Holmes Family Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 8, October 23, 1989 earthquake! Where were you when it hit?Don was just leaving his office on the 15th floor in downtown San Francisco when the whole building started to shake. I survived, said ... read more

 holmes family newsletter vol 2 no 4

(in family, holmes, newsletter from 1990)

Billy ClubNews That Hits You Over The HeadVol. 2, No. 4, February 26, 1990Coyote has puppies!Lucy's dog, Coyote ... read more

 holmes family newsletter vol 1 no 5

(in family, holmes, newsletter from 1989)

The Holmes Family Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 5, September 5, 1989 Jeannie breaks elbow Placed on Disabled ListLathrop -- While attempting a sling-shot maneuver during a roller derby match last month with teammates Tiffany and Thomas, Jeanni ... read more

 holmes family newsletter vol 4 no 6

(in family, holmes, newsletter from 1992)

The Barking Dog Vol. 4 No. 6, July 22, 1992 Who names these newsletters, anyway? earthquakes, earthquakes! We're sick of earthquakes! Why doesn't the government do something!? On June 2 ... read more

 family newsletter

(in family, holmes, newsletter from 2008)

Old stuff, but some of it's still funny ... It's basically the precursor to this website. Click the links in the table of contents, above. Otherwise, just do a search in the home page's search b ... read more

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