Category: Humor/Fiction

Dr. Shmerling says the word “placebo” comes from Latin and means “I shall please”…

Like many males currently going through their mid-life crisis, I had been drooling over the Tesla Cybertruck…

For what it’s worth, Thursday March 20 was World Happiness Day. If you’re like me, you were too depressed to even notice…

Every year, scientists are expanding their knowledge ‒ and our reality ‒ exponentially….

Walking down the cereal aisle at City Market, I noticed that my favorite breakfast cereal — Cheerios — was displaying words related to “families”…

Supposedly, this artwork shows St. Patrick giving a lesson in Christian precepts to three Irish kings. Presumably, the three kings had been raised as Pagans…

I didn’t just throw that headline together, willy-nilly.  I thought about it for a few minutes…

The great French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes once wrote, “I think, therefore I am…”

I don’t usually go looking for trouble. Nor do I go looking for ‘news about trouble’, for that matter…

I got an email on Saturday from Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, encouraging me to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8…

Leave it to Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman to not only help create the first atomic bomb, but also, to help us become a superior learners…

Costco stores are now targeting our wealthiest neighbors with great deals on all kinds of luxury items…

Like many of us, I expected the First of March to be a little more… you know… “fierce”?  A nice, rousing blizzard, for example?…

Food also makes us feel good, when we eat it. And Lord knows, we need reasons to feel good these days…

Our editor defended his choice.  “But look at the fangs!  Did you know musk deer have actual fangs?…”

Contact your creditors. The ones who loaned you money. (I’m not talking about your brother or your father)…

Philosophers have been arguing for centuries about the idea of “luck”. Does it exist? Is it a figment of our imaginations?…