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Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on November 02, 2016 7 Comments
The election is less than a week away. It's been an awful cycle. You deserve to have some feel-good story in your day. Like this one... Erling Kindem and Emmett Rychner are the best of pals. They're also 86 years apart.

Posted by Leslie Eastman on November 02, 2016 13 Comments
Given how much I plan to drink after Nov. 8th, in either celebration or despair, I have been toying with the idea of opening a winery. The idea has merit, given that it may be the only way I see any of my tax dollars back! The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Value Added Producer grants (VAPG) has awarded nearly $10 million to wineries, distilleries, and other makers of fine, alcoholic beverages millions!
The recently released list of the 2016 VAPG awards includes $7,417,459 for those producing, marketing, and packaging wine.

Posted by Leslie Eastman on October 29, 2016 36 Comments
It appears as if the elite media is actually participating in conservation efforts...by recycling old stories of humanity's impending doom. About one year ago, news outlets were reporting that the Earth has entered a sixth mass extinction phase, with animals now dying out at 100 times the normal rate. In my detailed analysis of the other 5 extinction level events, I noted than mankind played absolutely no role. In fact, the Permian extinction wiped out 95% of all lifeforms. Unless therapsids were driving S.U.V.'s or had air conditioning, it is difficult to condemn fossil fuels as the cause of such a massive loss of species. Obviously, we have not been sufficiently scared. So, now a new new report has been released asserting that over 60 percent of species will be gone in four short years.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on October 26, 2016 1 Comment

This one surprised me. I've grown accustomed to most cultural venues mocking anything Republican or right-leaning (though it could be argued Trump is neither). But a recent 'Saturday Night Live' sketch called "Black Jeopardy" was surprisingly kind in its portrayal of what appears to be a...

Posted by Mary Chastain on October 23, 2016 12 Comments
Billy goats. Black cats. Bartman. The 2016 Chicago Cubs have eliminated those curses and jinxes when they defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-0 in the National League Championship Series on Saturday night to advance to their first World Series since 1945. https://twitter.com/Cubs/status/790023493668642816 Why is this so important? Why is this such a big deal? As a lifelong diehard crazy Cubs fan, I will tell you. Let me take you on a journey through the tortured past of the Cubs because for the first time in forever, it's not as painful to look at these incidents.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 20, 2016 12 Comments
I never pass up an opportunity to play Boney M music. I first wrote a separate post about Boney M was when lead singer Bobby Farrell died in December 2010:

Boney M

That is a name I had not heard in decades. When I studied in the Soviet Union many of the East European students loved the group Boney M and were surprised that none of the Americans in our group had heard of it.  To them, Boney M was supposed to be one of the leading bands in the U.S.

Posted by Mary Chastain on October 19, 2016 10 Comments
In May, Texas and 12 other states filed suit against the Obama administration when it issued a transgendered bathroom policy across the nation in public schools. U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor put a freeze on the policy in August when he found the "administration did not follow proper procedures for notice and comment in issuing the guidelines." Well, today, Judge O'Connor rejected the "administration's request to narrow a nationwide injunction banning enforcement" of the policy." He made a few changes to his original ruling, but now the Department of Education cannot "bring new cases enforcing transgender students' access" to these "intimate facilities."

Posted by Mary Chastain on October 18, 2016 17 Comments
Someone placed a naked statue of Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, with hoofed feet and a Wall Street banker trying to suck her breast, in Manhattan. It caused fights between those who supported the artist and offended women. https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/788403600028528640
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