Affordable Dentures & Implants decided to investigate how much children are raking in for baby teeth left for the Tooth Fairy…
Category: Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Looking Younger, But From a Distance
“In all directions, at great distances, the universe looks younger, more uniform, and less evolved…”
READY, FIRE, AIM: God, Himself
What little we know about God has been handed down to us through a series of languages and translations…
READY, FIRE, AIM: How to Appear Emotionally Intelligent
“People with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70 percent of the time…”
READY, FIRE, AIM: News, Possibly Fake
For whatever reason, Parliament allowed the Licensing Act to lapse in 1695, which allowed newspaper to make up their own fake news…
READY, FIRE, AIM: A Visit to My Robot Dentist
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….
READY, FIRE, AIM: I’m Not Asleep; I’m Just Resting My Eyes
The chinstrap penguin has developed a rather unique relationship with sleep…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Dinosaurs in Utah
I found myself wondering, why did dinosaurs want to live in Utah?
READY, FIRE, AIM: Who Can Stop the Bleeding?
Trump could have beat Biden, blindfolded and with one hand tied behind his back…
READY, FIRE, AIM: A Few Idle Thoughts About Three Mile Island
This was a memorable nuclear accident…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Looking Forward to Being a Burden on My Children
According to a 2023 survey by the U.S. Census Bureau, about 28% of people 65 and older live by themselves…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Eating Pets in Springfield
“A lot of towns don’t want to talk about it because they’re so embarrassed by it…”
READY, FIRE, AIM: Killing Us Softly with Obnoxious Vehicles
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…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Money Can’t Buy Me Love
Ms. McArdle did some research into the attempts by various government and non-profit entities to solve the poverty problem…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Marriage is Dead, Long Live Marriage
In preparation of today’s column, I spent much of the weekend reading ‘Getting Married’ by the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Plastic We Release into the World
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…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Presidential Debate, as Standup Comedy
“World leaders are laughing at Donald Trump,” said Vice President Harris, during a skit about foreign policy…
READY, FIRE, AIM: How to Price Your Vote Correctly
If someone steals 11,000 votes (which might have happened in Georgia in 2020, for example) what is the monetary value of those votes?