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When were bench seats in cars abandoned to prevent dangerous sliding in and out? The last sedan with a front bench seat was the 2012 Impala, designed before most people drove their offices instead of commuting to them. Bucket seats are now compulsory even th... More »
I think it started in 1992 with her line about not standing by her man, an allusion to that notoriously blasphemous song “Stand by Your Man” by that America-hating country singer Tammy Wynette. Because everyone knows that attacking the most popular... More »
By Tony Powers 20 February 2016 NEW YORK – Alice, who famously said in Alice in Wonderland, “it’s the stupidest tea party I ever was at in all my life,” today retracted her statement. In a press conference held earlier on the lawn of The Mad... More »
By Martin H. Levinson If we all owned guns we’d get faster service at the DMV, be listened to more respectfully in the office. Muggers would think twice about robbing Jesus on the street because the son of God could be packing a pistol and passersby might ta... More »
By Boaz Dvir Going into 2016, I vowed to stop checking my social media sites on a daily – all right, hourly – basis and limit my visits to once a week. On paper, my New Year’s Resolution may have paled in comparison to my Facebook friends’, which inclu... More »
Alan and Bert were sophomores at Dugald Macpherson High School and they’d been arguing all week about which of them should invite Stacey Perkins to Spring Fling. Now it was Friday and Stacey still—miraculously—did not have a date. So the boys sat acr... More »
By Arthur H. Smith 1 February 2016 Migrating towards the Southern border, thousands of low level shrubs quietly move through the mean countryside by night when the piercing sun has fully subsided. By day, they find respite wherever darkening shade and cooling,... More »