CNN has a story about a website that claims that, for a fee, it can tell prospective home buyers if someone once died in a home those buyers are considering. I’m not vouching for the website, but here’s this week’s question: would you want to know if someone had died in a house under your…
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Friday Poll: Favorite Halloween Monster
by JOHN ADAMS • • 5 Comments
It’s the last Friday before Halloween, so a poll about Halloween monsters – which do you think is the greatest Halloween scare (or, if not scariest, then most interesting)? What’s your favorite? I’d say zombies, I suppose, with werewolves a close second. What do you think? (Multiple answers are possible.) Favorite Halloween Monster
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Friday Poll: Fitness Mom’s Photo
by JOHN ADAMS • • 9 Comments
So, Maria Kang, a mother of three who exercises almost every day, posted a photo of herself on Facebook, and it’s caused a stir. She’s obviously fit, but some Facebookers contend that she’s guilty of shaming them, of insulting them with her picture: (CNN) — Maria Kang likes a good workout. And she is getting…
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Friday Poll: The Dog-Defending, Raccoon-Tossing Incident
by JOHN ADAMS • • 3 Comments
This summer, entrepreneur Kevin Rose awoke to the cries of his dog, Toaster. Rose found his dog on a stairwell outside his apartment, battling (none-too-successfully) a raccoon. Acting to protect his dog, Rose tossed the masked attacker down the stairwell. Video from security cameras recorded the encounter, and Rose placed it on the YouTube (the…
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Friday Poll: Bigfoot Found at Last?
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Friday Poll: The Animal-Abuser’s Fate
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VILE MISCREANT Patricia Ritz, a notorious and convicted animal-abuser, died at her own home, only to be devoured after death by her own mistreated wolf-dogs. 14 News, WFIE, Evansville, Henderson, Owensboro Here’s the obvious question: Did Ritz meet the fate she deserved when she became, quite literally, a limited-edition brand of dog food? I’ll say…
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Friday Poll: Hot Dog-Hurling Mascot
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Friday Poll: World’s Smallest Dog? I’m not so sure about that….
by JOHN ADAMS • • 7 Comments
One reads that Milly is the world’s smallest dog by the Guinness Record Book’s estimation: Milly via Guinness Record Book photo SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico can now boast it is home to the world’s smallest dog – at least when it comes to height. The brown Chihuahua named Miracle Milly is shorter…
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Friday Poll: Dog or… Chupacabra?!?
by JOHN ADAMS • • 5 Comments
So, has Dr. Phyllis Canion found a chupacabra, that mysterious and legendary blood-sucking animal that haunts farms and dreams? Alternatively, is her find nothing but a screwy-looking dog? ….I never dreamt in a million years that I would see the most bizarre animal of all, on my own ranch in Cuero, Texas: an animal that…
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Poll: Calling 9-1-1 Over a Spider
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Friday Poll: Least-Convincing UFO Video Ever?
by JOHN ADAMS • • 6 Comments
There’s a recently-posted video on YouTube of a supposed UFO sighting over the Taj Mahal. I’ve embedded it below, and it seems to me to be about as bogus and unconvincing as any UFO video I’ve ever seen. (They typically seem that way to me.) This one, however, looks especially staged. What do you think?…
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Friday Poll: Aid to Egypt
by JOHN ADAMS • • 4 Comments
Egypt descends into sectarian violence. See, for a current account of developments, His Options Few, Obama Rebukes Egypt’s Leaders. America provides well over a billion in annual aid to that country. Should we continue that financial support while large-scale violence continues? (Assuming we should provide aid at all?) I’ll say stop, as we’ve aided too…
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Friday Poll: Dog or Spouse?
by JOHN ADAMS • • 5 Comments
Yachtsman and Beloved Terrier So one reads that a yachtsman first saved his dog from his sinking boat, and only thereafter swam back to rescue his wife: Graham Anley, his wife Cheryl and their 9-year-old Jack Russell Rosie were sailing from East London to Madagascar for a holiday when their yacht hit a reef in…
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Friday Poll – Restaurant Whistleblowing: Good or Bad Tactic?
by JOHN ADAMS • • 4 Comments
Yesterday I posted about a worker at a Golden Corral who recorded and published to YouTube a video with accusations about conditions at his Florida employer’s restaurant. I wrote that videos of this kind were a force for good. The video and a poll appear below. What do you think? Two quick notes: 1. I’ve…