Thoughts on Voting in America

Some people say, “If you’re old enough to join the Army, you should be able to vote, as well”. I feel exactly the opposite: If you’re already putting your life on the line for your country, why add the stress of voting to your plate? The vote you most often regret the least is the […]

Fun Facts About the Founding Fathers and Other Alliterations

Independence Day is set aside to commemorate the ratification of the Declaration of Independence on July 2nd, 1776. The reason we celebrate on July 4th is because, if we did what people thought we should do, we wouldn’t be very independent now, would we? The Fourth of July is usually celebrated with fireworks. The reason […]

June 26, This Day in HISTORY!!!

On June 26th 1948, Shirley Jackson published her short story, The Lottery, in the New Yorker magazine. What are the odds of that?! Much of the public furrowed their Neanderthal brows, shambled to their typewriters and wrote angry letters… mostly about not knowing what the HELL the story was about. It is an indictment […]

Half a Mast is Better than No Mast at All

Whenever a prominent person in the United States passes on, we fly our flags at half-mast. Other countries employ wailing and gnashing of the teeth but we feel that our method is quieter and requires fewer emergency visits to the dentist. Below is a FAQ that might be helpful in understanding the practice: Q. […]

Greatest Advances in Medicine

Trepanning: When a caveman got hurt, they were pretty ineffectual… yelling, “Do something! Anything!”. And, trepanning definitely counts as “anything”. Trepanning is the act of boring into the skull, which most people needed like a hole in the head. What’s most surprising is not that early man bored holes in the cranium to treat conditions […]