Posted on 12/09/2018 6:59:37 AM PST by billorites
There's so much good news. Gorillas appear to be thriving, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, and there are about 361,919 of them, twice as many as had been believed.
Humpback whales, who were nearly hunted out of existence in the 19th century, are making a comeback in the seas off Antarctica: the birth rate is on the upswing, according to a recent study. (The animals are the size of a school bus and have a life expectancy similar to ours.)
And a study at the University of Michigan shows that people who work out even 10 minutes a day tend to be more cheerful than those who don't.
This is science, people. This isn't fake news. These conclusions are based on actual facts established through observation by people who can count. What I learn from this is that it brightens your day to skip the front-page stuff about Washington and focus on science. Someday I expect to find a study showing that 75-year-old men who rode school buses as children have a longer life expectancy. That's me.
I rode a school bus for six years, 12 miles each way morning and afternoon, on a highway in Minnesota, cornfields to the west, the Mississippi to the east. I stood at the end of a gravel road, a gawky kid with wire-rim glasses, wearing second-hand clothes, knowing there would not be an empty seat because mine was the last stop.
The bus pulled up, the door opened, I climbed aboard, and the driver waited until I sat down before he started the bus. Nobody squeezed together to make room so I had to pick out a seat with skinny girls in it and hurl myself at them and hold on for dear life as they tried to shove me out when
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
As Dorothy Parker said, “If you can’t say something nice about somebody, come sit by me.”
Don’t forget his sound man—he was fantastic!!
How on earth does a vile anti-Semite like Keillor get published in the Jewish World Review ?
You’re right. He was! He did great foley and voice impersonations of all sorts of things!
I’ve head the name but I don’t know him from Adam.
Former “big star” on NPR in the ‘80s and ‘90s. World-class moonbat. Totally lost his $hit when Norm Coleman won the Senate seat in 2002.
rourke is a writer keiller is a story teller, maybe they each are 1/2 I like rourke bin culture and politics, but keiller’s stories like tales of alike wobegon portray a slice of americana rourke doesn’t get to. enjoy both
https://www.salon.com/2002/11/07/minnesota_3/
https://www.salon.com/2002/11/13/coleman_10/
Wow, WTF, did Coleman kill his parents or something?
You're probably thinking of Tom Keith. He was outstanding.
Sure acted like it. It was the Wellstone Funerally that was so insane that all but helped the GOP to reclaim the Senate. If there had been even an ounce of decorum at that function, Mondale probably would’ve won the seat.
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