Category: Humor/Fiction

In a recent episode of ‘Unexplainable’, Mr. Hassenfeld looked at why inflation behaves in an unpredictable fashion…

At the time, I wanted to be a cowboy.  ‘President of the United States’ didn’t strike me as nearly as much fun as roping cattle…

Otto Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa, invented the bread-slicing machine, but the prototype he built in 1912 was destroyed in a fire…

“No one was hurt, but a lawyer for the Florida family said the near miss could have been catastrophic…”

This was not just any old swear word.  It was in fact a “great” swear word…

Welcome to Pagosa Springs University!  We’re happy to have you join us…

“This bill mandates the display of the Ten Commandments in every classroom in the state of Louisiana…”

Bats, like the rest of us, spend much of their lives eating…

Which is to say, it’s not your actions that determine whether you are a criminal or not; it’s whether you can get elected President afterwards…

A couple of years ago, the internet featured plenty of stories about young people who’d decided not to have children…

Such bombs can kill a fairly large number of people…

“Trop grande familiarité engendre mesprisement…”

The poem didn’t include a blank space for my answer, so maybe it was a rhetorical question.  But what if Mr. Berry really wanted an answer?

If you feel like researching this topic — and I’m not suggesting that you do, but if you do — a good search prompt is “cognitive biases”…

“By the way, a lot of shark attacks lately, do you notice that? Lot of sharks. I watched some guys justifying it today…”

Geologists and stratigraphers don’t own the concept. People can just walk outside, and they recognize we’re in the Anthropocene….

Pagosa Springs has become a bit more prideful these days, although we don’t yet have a Pride Parade like they have in most big cities…

Politics have gotten a bit weird lately…