Why You Can’t Sneeze With Your Eyes Open
The received wisdom states that if you don’t blink when you sneeze, your eyes will fly out of your head. Thankfully, as is often the case with urban legends, this theory is a load of hooey.
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This is the default category used as the catch-all. If couldn’t think of any other classification for the post, I will classify it as “general.”
Milk And Cookies
in the evening I was a little hungry. There was a box of vanilla wafers in the cabinet, and for some reason I started thinking about a few of those with a nice cold glass of milk. I can’t remember the last time I did that, but it was very good.
Read moreWhy does it cost more to mail a square greeting card than a rectangular one?
Assuming they weigh the same, why should a square envelope cost more to mail than a rectangular one? That’s completely ridiculous. There must be a mistake here.
Read moreWhere Is The Hottest Place on Earth?
The biggest scorcher ever noted was on September 13, 1922, in El Azizia (also known as Al ‘Aziziyah), Libya, when the mercury hit 136 degrees Fahrenheit.
Read moreWill eating Pop Rocks and drinking soda at the same time kill you?
We remember quaking in our boots whenever this dare was thrown down on the playground. To put the age-old question to the test (and to rest), we visited the urban legend experts at Snopes.com.
Read morePrison Roommate for Delay
A defense contractor with ties to Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham took a $700,000 loss on the purchase of the congressman’s Del Mar house while the congressman, a member of the influential defense appropriations subcommittee, was supporting the contractor’s efforts to get tens of millions of dollars in contracts from the Pentagon.
Read moreReligious Abuses at Gitmo
Detainees held at the U.S. military base in Cuba told their U.S. lawyers about the use of tactics intended to degrade their religious beliefs in a series of interviews beginning in October 2004; the depositions were recently declassified by the Pentagon, and were published today on the watchdog group’s Web site.
Read moreSurprise Visits
Over at Americablog, Joe from D.C. makes an interesting point about the press oohing and aahing about the “boldness” of American officials making all these surprise visits to Iraq.
Read moreSawing Off Democracy’s Third Leg
In a democracy, the primary responsibility for the success or failure of that democracy lies with the people. We each have a duty to view critically the actions of our elected leaders. In this, American’s receive a failing grade. There is another leg of democracy which the founders recognized and gave special consideration. That leg is a free press.
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