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Old Normal: You suck, New Normal. Hotter temperatures, COVID, Taylor Swift… New Normal: Whoa, wait minute! What’s wrong with Taylor Swift? Old Normal: C’mon, you want to compare her singing to Streisand’s? New Normal: Get with it, Old Norma... More »
Out with the Old By Martin H. Levinson Biden and Trump between them are over 150 years old and clearly in need of retirement. America could use a fresh young face in the Oval Office. Here are four reasons why. 1. Inexperience Young people, because they have li... More »
In Florida, scores of books have recently been banned from libraries and classrooms as a result of Governor Ron DeSantis signing a bill giving parents, activists, and elected officials increased access to the process of selecting and removing those books. Wh... More »
Maybe it’s just me. But I can’t stand those teeny-weeny warnings (which anyone, even with 20/20 vision, would need a magnifier to read) on the labels of most pharmacy nonprescription health aids. Including, for some bizarre sadistic reason, eye drops –... More »
Despite the fact that Artificial Intelligence has progressed to a point where what was once possible only in science fiction is now a reality, unfortunately it does not always provide the results that were anticipated – but instead, occasionally some results... More »
It has been reported by major news media – including NBC and CBS – that an 8-foot alligator, named Tewa, believed to have been taken from a Texas zoo two decades ago and kept as a pet, was recently discovered by a game warden and returned to the zoo. It is... More »
What It’s Like Being a Woman in a P.G. Wodehouse Novel by David Galef Your name may be Mary or Sue or Muriel, in which case the course of true love may proceed with only a hiccough or two. If it’s Honoria or Gladys, you’re a frightful specimen who probab... More »
by MICHAEL J. MANGANO Since U.S. pharmaceutical companies have recently been plagued by rising R&D, advertising and administrative costs, as well as shrinking profits from sales to foreign markets, – not to mention the President’s recent declaration to... More »