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Former WWE star Jesse Ventura has admitted he is considering jumping in the ring with a wildcard presidential run — only days after bashing rumors about it. “OK, I’ve decided I’m going to test the waters. IF I were going to run for president, the GREEN party would be my first choice,” the 68-year-old wrestler-turned-Minnesota governor tweeted Monday. “To be clear: I haven’t filed anything. I authorized a letter of interest that was sent on my behalf to the Greens and I’m testing the waters for Green Party nomination,” he said. “I’m an independent. I’m not a Democrat or a...

There was a time, before the baby-boom generation took over, when we took pride in the achievements of our builders, producers, and innovators. There was always great celebration when settler families got a phone, a tractor, a bitumen road, or electric power. An oil strike or a gold discovery made headlines, and people welcomed new businesses, new railways, and new inventions. Science and engineering were revered, and the wealth delivered by these human achievements enabled the builders and their children to live more rewarding lives, with more leisure, more time for culture and crusades, and greater interest in taking better...

Between Man And Lion There Can Be No Compact" - HomerFor most of their history, extinct and living humans have represented little more than a vulnerable, slow moving, bipedal source of protein for big cats.," Julian Kerbis Peterhans Author's note: The Professor is talking about unarmed humans. The first quote is from the Homeric Period of Ancient Greece. The second is contemporary, as associate professor Peterhans is presently teaching Natural Science at Roosevelt University, and is an adjunct curator at the Field Museum in Chicago. Throughout at least three thousand years of man's history, it was well known that large...