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What is a Mule? Today is National Mule Day, a day to celebrate an animal that science says should never have happened. Mules are the product of cross-breeding an ass (Equus Asinus) and a female horse (Equus Caballus,) two animals whose genetic disposition scientifically works against actually producing offspring. All males (Jacks) are born infertile, [...]
Each year, my family and I have made it a point to return to Sequoia National Forest, to settle in for as long as we can stand it under the enormously tall, beautiful, welcoming Giant Sequoias. We invite as many family members as are willing to hang out together, circling the campgrounds for the perfect location. [...]
Written in commemoration of Dictionary Day. “Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.” ~ Noah Webster The year was 1827. [...]
Written on October 12, in commemoration of Freethought Day… It was a cold, hard, bitter Winter in 1692. Many of the tiny lonesome towns along the Eastern seaboard had spent the Summer before fighting off attacks on their borders by neighboring Indian tribes, suffering heavy losses. The Rye harvests had not been plentiful, as the [...]
A paperboy said to a customer one day, “Mr. Smith, I wish I had twenty customers like you.” “Gosh, that’s nice to hear,” said Smith, “but I’m kind of surprised considering I never tip all that well and always pay late.” The paperboy said, “I know, but I’d still like twenty customers like you. The [...]
If you live in a big city, you simply walk or drive past them. They are part of your landscape, like Starbucks every other block, or that guy who smells like old cheese and wants to talk to you about the vampires. But to those of us that live in more rural settings, a visit [...]
“When an icon falls, it should be done alone, with nobody around to see, to hear. Let the world awaken to the loss slowly, a tender mercy allowing our collective hearts to heal even as they break…” ~ Kapito Loss of an icon On this day in 1997, Diana Spencer, Her Royal Highness the Princess [...]
Around 2000 BCE, Herodotus and Siculus wrote that an asphalt-like product was used to hold together the walls and towers of ancient Babylon. Tablets have been found showing the use of petroleum for lighting and medicine in ancient Persia. The word “petroleum” was first used in a 1546 treatise called De Natura Fossilium, published by [...]
August 27th is Women’s Equality Day, the anniversary of the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, granting women the right to vote. Ninety one years ago to this day, millions of women applauded, patted each other on the back, and stuck their tongues out at the big, fat jerks all [...]