Author: Jonathan Kieran
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Increase Your Internet Presence! Handle Deadly Snakes and Take Selfies!
Death is but a small price to pay for viral cyber-status. Even as the autopsy is being performed and your cadaver is donated to medical science, the “Likes” will be piling-up online and your idiocy may be casually perused by…
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Brick-and-Mortar Bookstores are Far from Finished. Barnes & Noble Leads a Welcome Upswing
After opening a number of high-profile new locations, legendary bookseller Barnes & Noble is standing its ground and thriving against the onslaught of online and discount purveyors of the written word. Here’s one recent example of a welcome comeback that…
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Stirring the Ancient Imagination
Of all the archaeological treasures that Egypt can still boast for today’s intrepid traveler, those monuments based in the Nile Delta have suffered the worst due to the onslaught of the centuries. Once a region teeming with some of the…
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Just Because It’s New Zealand …
… doesn’t mean that Great White Sharks don’t patrol that island nation’s glorious blue waters. They do, though attacks in New Zealand are surprisingly much rarer than those that have occurred so frequently in Australia. This unfortunate young lady was…
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Big New Jessi Colter News: Major Outlaw Music Documentary On the Way
Huge news has arrived for the world of music, whether one is fan of a rock, country, pop, blues, or plain ole Irish sea shanties. Singer-songwriter Jessi Colter, whose entirely self-written Capitol albums and 1970s hit singles like I’m Not…
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Heed
IF the Deity’s obvious plan was to have us rise above the lesser animals and sort of watch what happens … … for sport … then you’d better hope it ALL ends when we croak. ______________________________________________________(But fear not—there are two…
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Proof That Any Ole Piece of Shit Can One Day Be a Steamy Pop Hit
The other day I went down one of those typical internet rabbit holes exploring lists of “Worst Pop Songs Ever Written” compiled over the years. You’ve seen them, too, at whiles. Many of the usual suspects were in evidence across…
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Food Coma par excellence?
So a five-foot alligator was found in the belly of an 18-foot python in the Florida Everglades. Presumably, the python’s belly had to be slit open in order for rangers to make this discovery. How unfair. That python didn’t stand…
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Madonna Has Gone to the Dogs? Think Again, Ye Doubters!
Yahoo news outlets seem to consider moldering pop-tart Madonna’s attempt to stoke the fires of publicity by hogging a dog’s bowl to be “edgy.” Hate to break it to those alleged Arbiters of Subversion, but that would only be true…
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Just “a normal part of life in Darwin.”
Yeah, that is the takeaway line from this brief story about an eleven-ft. saltwater crocodile ending up in someone’s backyard swimming pool in Darwin, Australia. It can’t be a mere coincidence. I think it’s destiny. HARRIED AUSSIE MUM: “You kids…
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