Shiver me timbers, thar's pirates lurkin' in the waters off the coast of Africa in 2009! Who woulda thunk it! Blue Beard? Black Beard? Captain Hook? Do these fellas have peg legs, long beards, bandannas, eye patches, and parrots on their shoulders?A bit light-hearted there, but there is really nothing funny about what is happening … Continue reading Make pirates walk the plank
Octuplets? That’s how many?
Octuplets? That's how many?
Happy birthday to our cells
Wednesday, October 13th, 1983 was an off-day in the World Series between my Philadelphia Phillies and the Baltimore Orioles. That Phillies team known as the 'Wheeze Kids' featured a number of holdovers from the 1980 world championship team including Mike Schmidt, Steve Carlton, Pete Rose, and Garry Maddox had battled the Orioles of Eddie … Continue reading Happy birthday to our cells
The bailout and the bloodbath
The Down Jones Industrial Average, the most popular and famous benchmark to guage the strength of the American economy, plummeted down almost 700 points today. The index, which is based on the scaled average of the stock prices on 30 of the largest and most widely held companies here in America, was celebrating the one-year … Continue reading The bailout and the bloodbath
The Juice is not loose
O.J. Simpson arrives at court last month during his robbery trial Have you ever known someone who got away with some extreme crime or a personally hurtful action and been frustrated and angry, but there was nothing you could do about it? You know, when you get that thought across your mind that "They … Continue reading The Juice is not loose
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