Category: Humor/Fiction

What little we know about God has been handed down to us through a series of languages and translations…

“People with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70 percent of the time…”

For whatever reason, Parliament allowed the Licensing Act to lapse in 1695, which allowed newspaper to make up their own fake news…

There was no one in the operating room when I walked in.  Just a big video screen, and a large, gray robotic device mounted next to the chair….

The chinstrap penguin has developed a rather unique relationship with sleep…

I found myself wondering, why did dinosaurs want to live in Utah?

Trump could have beat Biden, blindfolded and with one hand tied behind his back…

This was a memorable nuclear accident…

According to a 2023 survey by the U.S. Census Bureau, about 28% of people 65 and older live by themselves…

“A lot of towns don’t want to talk about it because they’re so embarrassed by it…”

If you drive in America, the chances are that 1-in-75 of all the people in the cars around you on the road will be killed by a car — probably, by someone else’s car…

Ms. McArdle did some research into the attempts by various government and non-profit entities to solve the poverty problem…

In preparation of today’s column, I spent much of the weekend reading ‘Getting Married’ by the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw…

I’ve been keeping track, and I can state with considerable confidence that I don’t generate more than half a pound of plastic waste per day…

“World leaders are laughing at Donald Trump,” said Vice President Harris, during a skit about foreign policy…

If someone steals 11,000 votes (which might have happened in Georgia in 2020, for example) what is the monetary value of those votes?

Mental Health is big business lately, what with so many borderline insane people running around…

Claim: Outdoor temperature can be determined by counting the chirps made by crickets…

Small herds of turkeys.  They’re a lot like human teenagers; they like to travel in groups.  Except they don’t have cell phones…