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Oh, Jeez. One more thing to inhabit my nightmares.

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own" --Jonathan Swift

Are you thinking of the "Rambo" movies? The first Rocky movies followed this formula: Rocky loses Rocky trains harder, wins Rocky...

In my neighborhood, "pony up" meant "put your money where your mouth is" or simply "lay out the money" (as in "Everybody else was short...

I think it was Michael O'Donoghue, a writer for the National Lampoon, who ended many of his accounts with something like "And then they...

Or a measure (roughly one fluid ounce) of liquor, as used for mixing drinks.

Be sure to take home samples from the factory there.

“Quitting’s easy. I’ve done it hundreds of times” Mark Twain

Yes, I've done a bit of reading on it, and Indigenous peoples definitely look upon nature as sacred. All things contain spirits, and...

Neville Schutt's book On the Beach or its movie adaptation. Any book on Masada or Gallipoli. Or Rocky (although he only lost in the...

Which brings us to another weird anomaly: In Germany, what we call string kites are called "dragons" because when they became...

Lake Onondaga, near Syracuse, New York, went though the same ordeal that Lake Erie did, being a dumping ground for various factories. My...

Should nature - like rivers, lakes and mountains - be granted legal rights...

An apt quotation from Mark Twain on the occasion of the new year starting today: "Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual...

There was a web site for SCA people called that. It was a collection of articles on various subjects related to the SCA... medieval...