Give Fetuses the Right to Vote
2016-01-19 – There’s a mini-movement gaining steam to give the vote to 16 year olds. Sixteen year old voted last year in the referendum on Scottish independence from the United […]
Tag Archives: Nature
BREAKING NEWS: Daybreak Tuesday at 7:17 AM (Chicago)
2015-12-20 – BREAKING NEWS: Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have informed EightOh9 News that the sun will rise in Chicago on Tuesday, December 22, at 7:17 […]
Gracie Is Schrödinger’s Cat
2015-12-10 – We have two cats. One is named Poppy. One is named Gracie. Gracie has hyperactive thyroid—or is it hypoactive? I can never get that straight. Whatever you call […]
December Is the Worst Month of the Year
2015-12-1 – December is the worst month of the year. Now, before you say this is an attack on Christmas, consider this: Christmas is in December to mitigate the gloom, […]
100 Days to the Iowa Caucus
2015-10-25 – Don’t you hate it when you click to a page and audio comes blaring out. They don’t give you a chance to say yes or no. The audio […]
A Canine Competitor in the Fertilizer Business
2015-08-25 – Do your dogs have a pattern of where they will and will not poop? My dog Lefty does. He rarely poops in the house and then only if […]
Puerto Rico Is Not Going to Be Hit By an Asteroid Next Month
2015-08-20 – The Internet is predicting an asteroid strike near Puerto Rico sometime between September 15 and September 28—a 13 day window. NBC News went to NASA to find out […]
You Can Barely Teach a Young Dog New Tricks!
2015-07-21 – They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. The assumption behind this saying is that you had no trouble at all teaching tricks to the dog […]
Optimism About Nihilism
2015-03-17 – The snow is nearly gone, but the filth of winter emerges in the melt. A season’s worth of soot-from-the-air and pebbles-from-the-disintegrating-street. This is not poetry. This is my […]
Lefty’s Wild Goose Chase
2014-12-30 – Lefty was born to chase geese. We didn’t do him any favor by plucking him from his litter in Thunder Bay, Ontario, where his pack mates made a […]
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