The Hare Club For Men
The Daily Mail is reporting that a hunter in North Carolina recently tested positive for a rare (and potentially deadly) illness called tularemia. In other words, the guy’s got rabbit fever! Officials are warning rabbit […]
Author: Thomas Sullivan
Thomas Sullivan is the author of So Much Time, So Little Change (a book of essays published by Wayman Publishing). It is available at Amazon in print and Kindle. Thomas lives in Seattle.
Back To Work
The other day I read an article about a huge, international bank that settled with the US government. The bank was caught laundering money for drug cartels, terrorist-linked organizations, and companies in Iran. Basically, you […]
News From Across The Pond
There are two reasons local TV news is better in Ireland than in America: the stories are funnier and the newscasters get to swear on TV. A good friend recently posted a clip about an […]
Taking On The Hackers
Last week it was reported that a number of major news organizations suffered a huge cyber attack. Authorities traced the attack back to a university in China and determined that it was state-sponsored. Apparently, the […]
Scaring Kids Is Back!
A hospital in Philadelphia recently set out to educate kids about guns. They put a group of fifteen 8th graders in a darkened room and showed them pictures of gunshot victims. The horrified kids had […]
Think Outside The Box
Romanian butchers! Cypriot meat-traders! Daring raids on slaughterhouses and meat-processing plants! This story is like the font size used in the top Huffington Post headline – it can’t get any bigger. Consumers in Europe are […]
Fast Food Fun
On Monday of this week The Daily Mail reported on an unusual mishap in an American McDonalds restaurant. A husband and wife were eating a meal when the woman leaned forward for an unspecified reason. […]
A Taxing Solution
The “sequester” is barreling towards us and the battle lines are set – one side of Congress wants only big cuts in spending while the other wants to increase revenues. Among the severe cuts set […]
Burning Down The House
The other day something happened to my gas furnace. It started making a strange squealing noise, so I turned the thermostat down to zero. I picked up the user manual and paged through it, mostly […]
The Horrors Of Research
Ohio State University recently did a three-day study on the link between heavy use of violent video games and aggression. The researchers used a group of college students in France, which makes sense — when […]