I took the IRT down BK street Where the RBG Twirled a beautiful B   She took that twirl all the way with a frill To the big SC Where there was no We   While she was alive Her rules changed the end of doctrine that prevented any woman to become legend   An in doing so became a beacon for justice and right, she was unbeaten. Her decisions were glorious They'll last for decades That's why her name is...notorius...

A farmer from Bombay recently revealed that when the pandemic forced schools to move their classes online, he had borrowed money from his friends so he could buy a smartphone for his 10-year-old daughter so she could study. However, after a while, his friends wanted him to pay back the money he had borrowed.   To do that, he would have had to sell the smartphone to arrange for the money, but the thought of breaking his daughter's heart forced him to make the difficult decisio...

I was asked a question last Thursday at a meeting...What's your hidden talent? It was a good question because I believe I really don't hide anything although I did come up with these;   • Barbecueing (I love to grill or smoke anything:) • Woodworking (I hand crafted the mouldings in the addition to my house to match the ones in the orignial 100 year old part) • Driving (I can drive any vehicle of any size) • Carve a turkey (at least Norman thinks so:)   What's yours?...

Here's a real life story I could classify as could only happen in corona time.   Ander Christensen, 27, appeared before the Lincoln City Council governing body at a public meeting and laid out the case for the city's restaurants and stores to stop claiming chicken tenders are "boneless chicken wings."   "We have been casually ignoring a problem that has gotten so out of control that our children are throwing around names and words without even understanding their true meanin...

A giant art mural located in Warsaw, Poland is helping people breathe a little easier. Made up of sun-activated, smog-cleaning pigments, the mural attracts airborne pollutants and converts them into harmless nitrates that purify the surrounding air equal to 720 trees using photocatalytic paint with titanium dioxide.    The campaign was organized by sportswear company Converse as part of its City Forests campaign.   Let's start painting...who's in?...

More observations from my unexpected COVID life...   I'm so used to my mask that sometimes I wear it while driving alone in my car.   Most of the customers in Whole Foolds are now Prime buisness people shopping to deliver.   I'm getting better at reading people even though I only see their eyes.   Supporting the small buinesses in my neighborhood is harder when a lot of them are closed.   Social distancing is an oxymoron.  ...

Just recently, a Washington state library, in the midst of a rennovation, were removing a corner panel which, lo and behold, revealed a stash of beer and chewing gum from the 1980s. Ironically the panel was from a shelf housing the mystery book section. The stash contained five unopened cans of Hamm's beer and an opened back of Godzilla Heads gum.   Of course they researched the origins and determined that the snack stash is more than 30 years old. The city officials said the...

In this bizarro moment in time, here's a problem I think most of us can get behind.   “We are experiencing a crisis that we evaluate to be even worse than the Great Depression (1929-1939) in terms of economy for Champagne,” Thibaut Le Mailloux of the Champagne Committee said . “And if you look at a more recent crisis like 1974, the drop in Champagne shipments was only half of what we are expecting this year.”   Even though alcohol consumption is up, producers in France’s nort...

In 2017, The New York Times disclosed the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. The program, which was started in 2007, studies the mystifying encounters between military pilots and unidentified aerial vehicles.   The NYT reports..."Although Pentagon officials will not discuss the program, it appeared last month in a Senate committee report outlining spending on the nation’s intelligence agencies for the coming year. The report said the program, n...

I was taught that if you shake someone's hand on a deal, it's done. You honor it because you just gave your word. Over the years I've been burned, unfortunately, by others who don't believe in it and seek to take advantage of every situation.   Then along comes this story that renews my faith...just a little bit:) A Wisconsin man made good on a 28-year-old handshake promise and split his $22 million Powerball jackpot with his longtime buddy.   Thomas Cook won a $22 million Po...