You Can’t Just Rely on Football to Get Through the Winter—Can You?
(I'll settle for the cookies.)
(I'll settle for the cookies.)
“The animals can fight with them, they can rub themselves against them, they can throw themselves over them and do various other things with these fir trees,” he added. “And so we enrich the animals’ everyday lives, which they are very happy about.”
And giraffes.
This Arctic outbreak is expected to bring a sustained period of cold weather across the northern Plains, Great Lakes, Midwest and East Coast as well.
Break out your warm socks and a good pair of mittens. Mind your ears.
Hope for snow.
The [recent crash] of an Azerbaijan Airlines jetliner in Kazakhstan, if officially confirmed as a shootdown, would be the third major fatal downing of a passenger jet linked to armed conflict since 2014, according to the Flight Safety Foundation’s Aviation Safety Network, a global database of accidents and incidents. The tally would bring to more than 500 the number of deaths from such attacks during that period.
So if you're making travel plans for the coming year, try to route around the coming wars.
New firearm regulations are also coming into effect after more than 500 people died in more than 500 mass shootings in the United States in 2024.
If the number of people killed in mass shootings is about the same as the number of mass shootings then not all of the shootings could have been mass, could they?
Accurate numbers are a little difficult to come by here due to inconsistencies in reporting protocols.
Though they tend to get less public attention than gun-related murders, suicides have long accounted for the majority of U.S. gun deaths. In 2021, 54% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides (26,328), while 43% were murders (20,958), according to the CDC. The remaining gun deaths that year were accidental (549), involved law enforcement (537) or had undetermined circumstances (458).
Washington, D.C., December 29, 2024 – The late President Jimmy Carter, contrary to the views of some critics, was typically focused, knowledgeable, and strong-willed on matters of foreign policy,…
Sometimes I imagine I'm the only person living who voted for Jimmy twice. That's likely not true, but probably close.
Jimmy Carter was a better President than he's generally given credit for being. Also he was, for a while at least, radioactive. He won a Nobel prize. And took up carpentry.
He lived for a century, and made it better.
An official fined Carlsen $200 and asked him to change pants, but he refused and wasn’t paired for a ninth-round game, the federation said at the time. The organization noted that another grandmaster, Ian Nepomniachtchi, was fined earlier in the day for wearing sports shoes, changed and continued to play.
He captures and preserves them in glass covered frames…
The 59-year-old and 37-year-old appear to have died from exposure, the Skamania County Sheriff’s Office said via Facebook. The weather and the men’s lack of preparedness led the office to draw that conclusion, it said.
How stupid was 2024?
Let’s start with the art world, which over the centuries has given humanity so many beautiful, timeless masterpieces. This year, the biggest story involving art, by far, was that a cryptocurrency businessman paid $6.2 million at a Sotheby’s auction for . . .
A banana.
Which he ate.
“It’s much better than other bananas,” he told the press.…