Category: Humor/Fiction

Back in November, a group of Somali pirates in a skiff temporarily hijacked the oil tanker MV Central Park, but were later captured…

So, like, two scientists in Antarctica are standing outside their igloo, and one says, “Gee, Fred, the thermometer says minus-55-degrees today. Does that seem kinda warm to you?…”

While it takes Mother Nature millions of years to grow the old fashioned kind of diamonds, a modern synthetic diamond can be grown in less than a week..

Will the rodeo feature a bunch of tough, bronc-riding women, who feel perfectly comfortable wearing pink anyway? Or will the men in the rodeo be wearing pink… much to their embarrassment?

Raising kids is not easy.  Or cheap.  In fact, I can imagine a journalist, or a politician, going off the deep end as a result of having too many kids…

These two opinionated guys were in agreement, amazingly enough, that the inflammatory rhetoric in America needs to get toned down…

Several fire departments rushed to the scene and pumped thousands of gallons of water onto the burning rubbish and finally extinguished the flames…

I already knew that exercise was good for you. I guess everybody knows that…

How would a computer program share this story with my congregation?  To find out, I asked ChatGPT to write a short sermon…

Bobby — I like to call him Bobby — has his work cut out for him. Considering the competition…

The fossil record suggests that horses evolved over millions of years into a friendly animal that could transport humans from place to place…

In 1922, a New York tie maker, Jesse Langsdorf, came up with a method of cutting the fabric on the bias…

Ms. Tang became deeply interested in democracy during the 2014 Sunflower Student Movement in Taiwan…

No one else emailed me, to wish me a safe and relaxing Independence Day.

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…”