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Archives for November 2017
Johnny Ortiz is trying to believe what people routinely say. If you want something badly enough, you can achieve it. Now it’s up to everybody to give him the break he’s already earned. Read more →
The description of the process used in the gene therapy is enough to make you proud to walk the same planet as the scientists who have figured out how to do it.
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The Minnesota Supreme Court struck down the conviction of a man who was supposed to register as a predatory offender when he entered Renville County in 2014. Juanel Anthony Mikulak’s defense? He thought he had a week and didn’t know otherwise. Read more →
Perhaps in years past a couple of guys who didn’t think women belonged in the pulpit of a church would be a minor nuisance, but one can hardly blame the parishioners of a Dickinson, N.D., church for quickly throwing them out. Read more →
Judging by the tweets from Papa John’s Pizza, a lot of people boycotted the company after its CEO took exception to the NFL players protest for racial equity. Read more →
Miltona, Minn., (pop. 408) is the latest small town to lose its small grocery store and some people in town are none too happy about it. But the people in town are primarily responsible for the closing. Enough of them decided to shop at the big-box retailers instead. Read more →
School trips to Washington are a rite of passage for America’s school kids. But fear has won out in North Ridgeville, Ohio, where school officials have decided the threat of terrorism is too real to risk the eighth-graders’ lives by showing them the capital of the land of the free.
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Quick! Name a ski jumper!
Odds are, you can’t. Ski jumping isn’t a big deal for the masses anymore.
It wasn’t always thus. Read more →
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Anyone who has spent any time at all posting to Facebook probably knows the reality of living in a fantasy world. Let’s face it: The images we’re uploading, the status updates we’re making, are only a part of our lives. We don’t generally post the other part, and in so doing, we create the illusion of our perfect lives for the benefit of others. Read more →
Given the November weather and the general state of affairs, the nation has never more needed an online series of Bill Murray visits to minor league baseball stadiums. We’re in luck. Read more →
Actor James Woods has no time for the ideals of the United States as a great melting pot. How else to explain his tweet? Read more →
LeBron James, arguably the greatest basketball player of all time, took the subway to his hotel when he and his Cleveland Cavaliers teammates arrived in New York to play the Knicks last night.
Guess who ended up being the star of the video James posted on Twitter? Hint: He doesn’t play basketball.
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There’s limited information in this Facebook post from the Hopkinton, Mass., Police Department. But we want to know so much more about the scofflaw that thought he — it’s got to be a he — could get away with a license plate made from a pizza box and a Sharpie marker.
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