Bzzzzzz Just in time for Valentine’s Day, scientists appear to disagree about what causes the latest super virus, Zika. It’s either sexual contact or blood-sucking insects, so clearly the wisest course of action would be to avoid getting freaky with mosquitoes. I’m truly sorry if this ruins your romantic plans. I know my spring plans […]
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Street Talk: Life as a cord-cutter
I honestly cannot remember a time when I lived without cable television. Even when I was hunkered down in a one-room apartment on Nichols Street, eating Ramen noodles every night and existing on a telemarketer’s salary, I had cable. True, it was on a tiny black-and-white TV with an old-fangled channel knob, but it was […]
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Talk of the town
Groundhog Day According to a photo caption in Tuesday’s Sun Journal, a pair of university professors work “to collect secretions from a scent gland inside the mouth of a groundhog pup.” And we think this little fella is concerned about whether or not he sees his shadow? The poor critter probably just wants to spit. […]
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Street Talk: Abandoned dog stirs empathy
I was just fine until I watched the video in its entirety. The dog bounds out of the car with unleashed enthusiasm and not a care in the world. She runs a big circle in that crazy grinning way dogs have when it’s play time, tail whipping from side to side because by God, life […]
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This is what ‘high-quality irreverence’ looks like
Fashion arrest There’s a photo gone viral on the Internet of a woman whose attire happens to match the hotel hallway in which she’s standing. The last I looked, the photo had been viewed over 3 million times. How is it that this lady is an overnight celebrity, whereas every time I post a photo […]
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Street Talk: Partying like it’s 1985
If I ever stumble over a genie somewhere and get 10 wishes, one of them is going to be this: I want to travel back to the ’80s for a week. For a day — even just an hour. How long could it possibly take to adequately re-live the cheesy, neon hair-fest that was the […]
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Hoverboards & Don McLean: 8 miles high and falling fast
Lewiston to vote on hoverboards Come on. Tell me this doesn’t sound like a headline Michael J. Fox might have encountered in one of the “Back to the Future” sequels. It’s such a tantalizingly futuristic sounding thing that it borders on cheesy, yet there it is, a real-world situation that needs to be addressed. This […]
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Street Talk: The secrets that you keep
I’ve seen some weird stuff. Priests caught soliciting prostitutes, beloved teachers peddling drugs, kindly old men accused of atrocities. Everywhere you look you find good guys gone bad and the next one is just around the corner. It’s a shocking business, all right, but I don’t think I was truly thunderstruck in this job until […]
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Talk of the town: Turn and face the strange
Big money The Powerball jackpot got up over a billion dollars before some jerks across the country won it. A BILLION dang dollars, as in a 1 followed by nine zeroes. Unless you happen to be a major corporation or a small country whose name nobody can pronounce, you probably have no real grasp of […]
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Street Talk: Street names for all!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. My favorite street name, back when I worked in that world, was “Boo.” It’s short, it’s easy to remember, and if you say it just right during the commission of a street crime, it can cause comical fright among your fellow hooligans. Great fun. When your […]