(Not So) Sweet 16

A Pennsylvania girl’s Sweet 16 party was ruined after her celebration was showered with poop, apparently dumped from a passing airplane.  Jacinda Cambray and 40 guests were partying in her family’s backyard when the brown liquid began raining down.  “We’d just gotten done with the cake, thank God,” said Cambray’s sister, Kristie Rogy.  “Because within two minutes something fell from […]

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Study: Painkillers Dull Pleasure

Every week, more than 50 million Americans take acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol and many other popular painkillers, to ease their aches and pains. But a new study has revealed that the drug also dulls emotions—including happiness. Prior research showed that acetaminophen can help take the sting out of negative feelings like dread, but the new findings from Ohio […]

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Environmental Campaign Urges People To Be Thankful For Pollinators This Thanksgiving

Imagine what your Thanksgiving table would look like without any food that is pollinated by bees. It’s a challenge issued by the group Environment Washington, which is highlighting the issue with a campaign called “No Bees, No Food.” Canvassers for the group say if bees die off, then turkey, rolls and potatoes are all  that would be left on the […]

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Poem – AFTER THE FACT (By Ray Gallucci)

  AFTER THE FACT   The mystery of history Reduces all to sophistry If fecklessly, not skeptically, Accept we its validity.   Did Kennedy form strategy Preventing Cuban tragedy When quarantined Fidel at sea? Or was it serendipity?   Did atom bomb need dropping on To-be-defeated-soon Nippon, Because Japan, to its last man, Would fight invasion hand-to-hand?   Was Civil […]

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