Tina Fey Quote – Go Down The Chute
“You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the water- slide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” – Tina Fey
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Your beliefs don’t make you a better person, your behavior does
“Your beliefs don’t make you a better person, your behavior does.”
Read moreShort Story – Finding a Refugee a Home (By Donal Mahoney)
Finding a Refugee a Home Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet. He was a Maine Coon cat who arrived at our door as a refugee without papers or a green card. Probably was a pet once; someone […]
Read moreCartoon – More Guilt
Owned Stock
Percentage of U.S. stock owned by the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans: 89
Read moreCartoon – A Stable Birth
Cartoon – They Are Watching You
Cartoon – They Are Watching You
Read moreBritish Woman Skis Unaided Across Antarctica
A British woman has become the first person to ski across Antarctica without the help of kites, machines, or dogs. Felicity Aston, 34, completed the 1,084-mile journey in 59 days, battling through the frozen wastes in temperatures as low as -22 and dragging 187 pounds of supplies behind her on a sled. She overcame crushing loneliness by listening to Agatha Christie […]
Read moreMartin Luther King Jr. Quote – Nonviolence
“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
Read moreThe world’s largest virus
A huge virus discovered in sediment on the Chilean coast and another in an Australian pond are not only the largest scientists have ever seen, but also among the most baffling. A single so-called pandora virus is 1,000 times the size of the influenza virus and holds 2,556 genes, compared with the flu’s 13. Only 6 percent of its genes […]
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