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For the second or third time, we have a “blizzard to end all blizzards!!” on the East coast. I get a little tired hearing about the winter storms on the East coast, in which photos like this make the news. The main story isn’t the storm, really, but the fact that it’s happening in a …

“I’m with Coco” poster seen in downtown Bismarck gift store on my walk home from work today. Are you with Coco?

Did you know that it is five minutes to midnight? Not for long, mind you, since tomorrow, January 14, 2010, that changes. I had read of the Doomsday clock years ago, and had, to my delight, forgotten it. While it makes for a great reference device in film and novel, the ridiculousness of a man-made …

I’m not much for banning books, but, in this case, I can support burning them: Volunteers have reported that ‘a large number’ of elderly customers are snapping up hardbacks as cheap fuel for their fires and stoves. … Workers at one charity shop in Swansea, in south Wales, described how the most vulnerable shoppers were …

It’s fun to go places. It’s gotten more enjoyable these past years as the government has expanded its interests from liking long walks on the beach and pina coladas, delving into Uncle Sam’s Hell-On-Earth Travel Agency, which is exemplified in a sort of schizophrenic attempt to both bail out a troubled airline industry and make …