Mr. Sandman, Bring Me a Remee Dream Director’s Chair
You’re dreaming if you think I’m going to rush out and purchase a Remee (“the world’s first comfortable, affordable lucid dreaming mask”). The Remee (the brainchild of Brooklyn-based … Read more
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Sex, Lies and Identity Theft
I just got an email from a British website telling me they couldn’t ship me the porn I’d ordered because they were unable to verify my credit card … Read more
Insight on Cartoonists: Nick Downes (The New Yorker)
To navigate life’s all-too-frequent stumbling blocks successfully, it’s necessary to learn how to accept the downs as well as the ups. But at the New Yorker magazine (still … Read more
Top Fifteen Ways Our Adult Children Disappoint Us
Our adult children, unfortunately, disappoint us in far too many ways. Here are the top fifteen: They live in the basement with no money, no aspirations and no … Read more
Snarling Banks
We’re sick and tired of being bullied and stomped on by the Powers That Be in Washington, and by gollies, we’re not going to take it anymore! Hooray! … Read more
Truck Spills Thousands of Gallons of Beer, Obama Declares Day of Mourning
A semi truck carrying thousands of gallons of beer overturned in Volusia County early Tuesday morning, spilling beer over the northbound lanes of I-95. Police say hundreds of … Read more
Four Men Dressed In Panda Suits
…and it’s not a photo from a furry convention. It is a group of researchers transferring a giant panda to a new location. The researchers are trying to expose the pandas to as little human influence as possible. When they have to…
Argus Has Fun with the News: GOP & More
Donna Summer died Friday, saddening Baby Boomers who danced at discos to her songs in the Seventies. What an era. Every night we’d wave our arms and sway … Read more
Noblesse Oblige (See Below)
Rankin Paynter, who owns a jewelry exchange business in Northern Kentucky, was poor as a child. Now he feels for the customers who come to him because they have fallen on hard times.
“There are a lot of needy familie…
A Frog Eats the Sun
There’s something about the quality of diminished light from an eclipse that is unlike almost anything else. It is different from overcast or smoke or smog. Perhaps that contributes to the eerie feeling that accompanies the sense of wonder.
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