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Blending In
In an airport gift shop in Tasmania, customers got a real surprise as they were looking at shelves of stuffed animals. One lady claimed that she saw some huge brown eyes moving on one of the creatures. It was real. It was a live possum hiding a...
Experiements
It’s good to allow students to have creative experiments, but be sure that the ingredients of the experiment are properly disposed. A school in Waldoboro, Maine allowed such a student experiment to allow dirt to be baked to measure post-inciner...
Passing the Test
A Texas man drove his Tesla Cybertruck into a lake to see if it would really float. He wanted to test it. He abandoned the half-submerged vehicle and was charged by the local police. The charges included boating without a license. The police sa...
Reputation
Your reputation is a reflection of your character. Most people want a good reputation but it’s not something you can buy—it’s something you have to work at every day of your life. It’s not something you build quickly—it’s done little by little....
Reaching Goals
Recently, Chef Mirko Ricci wanted to break the Guinness World Record for the longest tiramisu cake. He held the record until 2019 when he lost it. He has engaged over 100 chefs in London to help him break the new record. He needed 150,000 ladyf...
Honest People
Luis Salazar went into the men’s restroom at the Wawa service station in Riviera Beach, Florida. He found a black fanny pack on the handicap bar in the bathroom. He opened it and it had $30,023 in it. He ran to the convenient store parking lot ...
What's Cool
What is really cool and what is not. Recently, a YouGov survey took several items to see which were the most cool. While most folks think it’s cool to use cannabis, the survey rated weed fourth to last on a 36-item coolness scale. Cannabis actu...
Your Sins Will Find You Out
Be sure that your sins will find you out. Ask Isaac Valencia, a 29-year-old who was trying to rob a California coffee shop when he fell through the roof. He began crying for help but to no avail at first. Finally, some people in the coffee shop...
Understanding
Sometimes a law’s influence goes way beyond what was intended. This happened recently at a Ford-Lincoln dealership in Kansas. They had a sale for a F-250 pickup truck, but then realized that a robin had built a nest on one of its tires and laid...
Prove Your Point
When somebody puts you to the test, how far will you go to prove your point. If you are sure you are correct, what is the limit? A man in India was trying to access the account of his dead sister. The bank staff indicated that he would have to ...
Hacky Sacks
Some games may have gone out of style in the past and then made a comeback. Do you remember playing with hacky sacks years ago? You would volley a crocheted bean bag with your feet. That’s coming back today among students, and they are even hac...
Service Dog Sadie
At Texas Tech University commencement this past June, a service dog named Sadie was invited to walk on stage and receive her own diploma, alongside her owner, graduating senior Makaela Muse. Muse adopted Sadie and trained her as a service anima...
Following the Rules
The Libertarian National Committee had a proposal at their convention that they would have a “business casual” dress code. The committee deadlocked 5-5 in voting. The party chairman even said that if the measure had passed, “one thing about lib...
Unity Instead of Diversity
Affordability is a big issue today. I read recently where there is an issue that both democrats and republicans were agreeing on—it deals with rotisserie chicken. Currently, SNAP benefits cannot be used on hot prepared food, but the “Hot Rotiss...
Course Grades
A recent study at Harvard showed that A’s now make up 60% of all course grades, which is up 24% from 2005. A new proposal would cap the number of A grades at 20% per course. Maybe 60% of A’s indicate that a lot of students are working harder to...
Common Sense
Every person has to decide how to let your light shine, be the salt of the earth, and share the Good News. How do you do it? Rev. Phillip Thornton of the Dauphin County’s Legacy Faith Church in Pennsylvania used a unique but questionable way. D...
Choose Your Battles
Be sure you pick your battles. Neil the Seal is a 2,200-pound elephant seal who goes on a rampage in southern Tasmania crushing fences, obstructing roads, tearing down bollards, and crashing into parked cars. He seems to do this every year at a...
Consequences
Recently, an English dog trainer, Christina Bluhme, was mountain climbing with her black Labrador. The dog must have found a cannabis gummy on the trail and ate it. The five-year-old dog named Tokyo began swaying and got really weak in her hind...
Saving A Life
Sometimes a positive action can become contagious for other people to follow. Kaedi Cecala was diagnosed with a deadly bone marrow disease. She waited for two months on a stem cell transplant registry. She was finally matched with a lady named ...
Good Relationships
Relationships are often the best medicine to help with healing—even in animals. Barley is a golden retriever who is recovering from epilepsy on Long Island. She started treatment in 2024 and slowly lost her playfulness. Then the family brought ...
Daily Coffee
I remember several times in my life experts saying that it is healthy to drink coffee. Then they said that it is unhealthy to drink coffee. Then a few years later, that changes. Just recently, the American Heart Association (AHA) has advised th...
Christmas in July
The headlines read that Christmas has come in July this year because 36 Santas and Mrs. Clauses and elves met in Denmark for the 69th World Santa Claus Congress. It’s a time when employees of the yuletide season begin to talk about making Santa...
God's Pardon
A rapper paid $600,000 to Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman to get them to secure a pardon for the rapper from President Trump. They actually told him that they had secured the pardon but now have discovered that they haven’t given it to him, and the...