Free Republic

An Iranian man who says he can stick any object to his body has broken a spoon-balancing record for the third time. Abolfazl Saber Mokhtari first claimed the record for most spoons balanced on the body in 2021 with 85 – smashing the record of 64 that came before him. He then broke his own record in 2023 with 88 spoons, and returned again this January with his new total of 96.

Representative Eli Crane of Arizona, during Tuesday’s U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security hearing, asked Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Col. Christopher Paris questions regarding Trump rally shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks’s home. The former Navy Seal, representing Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District, asked Col. Paris, “Did your team make entry and conduct any investigation of the suspect’s home?” Paris responded, “I believe we had people that participated in securing it; there were bomb assets that we provided on the night of.” Crane continued, “Did you get any reports from any of your agents of anything fishy at the home?” Paris answered, “I...

Probably will disappear soon, certainly a curious thing to see on a product page which is at http://www.walmart.com/ip/ZHI-HUI-GAO-GEN-MAI-DE-SHA-BI-WAN-YI-ZU-ZONG-SHI-BA-DAI-BAN-YE-GUAN-CAI-BAN-DOU-GAI-BU-ZHU-ZHAUN-DIAN-QIAN-XIU-GUAN-CAI-BA/948869282?from=/search.

The headline of a story in today's Detroit Free Press characterizes Gov. Jennifer Granholm's understanding of the state film production subsidies: "Goal of film tax credit is jobs, not more revenue." There's a story from the 1960s about the late economist Milton Friedman visiting a large public works project in a third world country that was funded by U.S. foreign aid. Given the substantial investment, the famous economist was surprised to see thousands of men with shovels moving dirt one spadeful at a time. He asked his host, "Why don't they use bulldozers?" "It creates more employment this way," came...

Where are the damn car keys? The socks? The left sneaker, when only the right one remains where you last pulled them off? In the greater universe of smaller things, some objects seem to have a mind, and get-away plan, all their own. Explaining it away as aging grey matter, just one of those days or mind games played by the dog, most of us just blindly move forward — always keeping an eye out for our much loved but still missing bric-a-brac. But what if science could open a door into this lost world? What if the brightest men...