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Once upon a time, there was a man named Jack who was married to his high school sweetheart, Karen. Jack loved Karen, but he couldn’t stand the idea of being married. He thought it was an outdated institution and didn’t understand why people still bothered with it. Unfortunately for Jack, Karen was the traditional type and had always dreamed of a big, beautiful wedding….

Once upon a time, there was a man named Tom who had just turned 50 years old. He had always been a bit of a daredevil and enjoyed taking risks, but he had recently started to notice that he was having some bladder control issues. At first, he brushed it off as just a one-time thing, but as time went on, it became clear that he needed some help in the form of adult diapers….

They are a wonderful, All-American family, except for one little thing. They might try to kill you. This family, who I will refer to for the purposes of this article as “The Marshall Family,” because their last name happens to be Marshall, strategically avoids giving off the impression that vacationing with them will result in your untimely death. This impression would be wrong. Our families recen…

“Four score and seven years ago…” so begins possibly the greatest speech from a President of the United States… ever! There is, of course, the “day that will live in infamy” speech from Franklin Roosevelt which occurred as America prepared to enter into WWII (the war to end all wars, for now.) And lest we forget how about the “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky,” spee…

was about six years old and my grandfather had a pair of truck drivers that provided my first exposure to the “geniuses” that constitute the criminal element. The drivers were a father and son duo that one Saturday morning, took the back seat out of the father’s car and drove to a farm a few miles north of town. Once there, they somehow managed to load a 400 pound hog into the back of the car.  Turning around, they headed back south of town to the local livestock auction….

YASUNI NATIONAL PARK, ECUADOR —  There are two indigenous tribes located in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, the Tagaeri and the Taromenane, who have had virtually no contact with the outside world.  I say “virtually” because there have been encounters. In one instance, in 1956, five missionaries were dispatched to the afterlife when they tried to approach. In another, two individuals entered what the…

The world, it seems, is divided into two camps: the messy and the neat. I am firmly planted in the messy category. My desk is piled so high with papers, folders, files, and books that getting to the top requires a sherpa. And digging to the bottom? An archeologist or mining engineer. Why do I prefer clutter? I’m not exactly sure. It does not seem to be genetic. My mother, of German heritage and a…