Benghazi Hearing of 10.22.15 View image | gettyimages.com Regardless of your politics, do you think the Benghazi hearing of 10.22.15, with Sec. Clinton, was useful or wasteful?
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Friday Poll: End of Tipping at Restaurants?
by JOHN ADAMS •
Tipping at Restaurants? View image | gettyimages.com Yesterday I posted a story about a restaurateur who was ending tipping at his establishments, because he thought this more equitable to all his employees: Under the current gratuity system, not everyone at a restaurant is getting a fair shake. Waiters at full-service New York restaurants can expect…
Politics, Poll
Friday Poll: Joe Biden in the 2016 Presidential Race?
by JOHN ADAMS •
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Friday Poll: Suspended for the Wrong Color of Green?
by JOHN ADAMS •
Public-School Shirt Color Should a child in a public school be suspended for wearing the wrong color of blue or green? At a public school in New Jersey, a child was suspended over a dispute about the color of her shirt: 8-year-old Kylie and her twin sister Karlie don’t look like troublemakers, but Kylie was…
Animals, Poll, Weird Tales
Friday Poll: Rabbits v. Humans of Langley, Washington
by JOHN ADAMS •
Rabbits v. Langley, Washington In Langley, Washington, people are complaining that rabbits are overrunning the town: Hundreds of bunnies are running wild around Langley, on Whidbey Island. They’re burrowing holes in school football fields, destroying the foundations of buildings and posing health risks to people and their pets, according to local officials. “There is feces…
Poll, Weird Tales
Friday Poll: Who Invented Chess?
by JOHN ADAMS •
Who Invented Chess? Here’s a surprising headline: World Chess President Claims He Was Abducted By Space Aliens — And They Invented Chess “They came in a flying saucer, picked me up, and I spent a whole day in outer space.” The story‘s over at the Huffington Post, where current International Chess Foundation president – and…
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Friday Poll: Packers 2015 Regular Season Wins
by JOHN ADAMS •
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Friday Poll: Pony in a Hatchback
by JOHN ADAMS •
Shetland Pony in a Hatchback? Should a motorist be allowed to transport a Shetland pony in a small hatchback? Officers in the German town of Bad Oeynhausen stopped a motorist with a Shetland pony in her Fiat Panda hatchback: “Despite the fact the so-called Shetland pony is not bigger than some dogs, the officers quickly…
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Friday Poll: Paying a Fine with Coins
by JOHN ADAMS •
< View image | gettyimages.com Paying a Fine with Coins Pennsylvania handyman Justin Greene recently tried to pay a $25 municipal fine in pennies. Local officials in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania refused to accept his payment in 2,500 coins, erroneously contending federal law barred that form of payment for a fine. (They’ve now acknowledged that there is…
Animals, Poll
Friday Poll: Rampaging Koala
by JOHN ADAMS •
Poll, Weird Tales
Friday Poll: The Mysterious Lizard Man of South Carolina
by JOHN ADAMS •
The Mysterious Lizard Man of South Carolina One reads that in South Carolina, a resident insists that she spotted a lizard man – a large bipedal reptile – walking about: BISHOPVILLE, S.C. (WCIV) — The fabled Bishopville swamp creature known as Lizard Man appears to have surfaced again Sunday afternoon. Sarah, a Sumter woman who…
Politics, Poll
Friday Poll: The Fox GOP Debate
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Animals, Poll
Friday Poll: When Bison Attack
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When Bison Attack, Who Should Be Responsible? View image | gettyimages.com Some national parks in America have bison, some of those bison are ornery, some of those ornery bison will charge visitors to the parks, visitors who are charged are naturally slower than bison, and so some of those slower-than-bison visitors get gored. The National Park…