Author: Steven D

A personal message

My daughter has been accepted by the college that was her first choice: Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She is deliriously happy this morning. Now, we have to find the money to pay for her education. Hopefully she will qualify...

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Female Nipples New Terrorist Threat

And you thought only their vaginas were the problem. No, Republican legislators in North Carolina have identified the the “clear and present danger” that women pose to our great democracy: Their Bare Nipples! On...

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A Gun Review, etc.

I don’t know much about guns, but I do know someone who owns a Beretta Cx4 Storm Carbine. He bought it for self defense (that’s what he told me and I have no reason to doubt him), and he allowed me the opportunity to...

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Thawing Permafrost = More Carbon Emissions

A new study in the journal PNAS, “Surface exposure to sunlight stimulates CO2 release from permafrost soil carbon in the Arctic,” indicates that the elimination of permafrost in the Arctic is happening at a faster...

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The Obsolete State of the Union

Will you watch the President’s State of the Union address? I confess, I will not. Granted, that means I may miss out on some seamy, scandalous or absurd moments of political entertainment, such as the instance when a...

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