Archive for the 'Around the world' Category
As you may know, I’m a tournament bridge player, though not as frequent a player as I once was, thanks…
The Humane Society is applying pressure to the Justice Department in an effort to get them to prosecute Dan Duncan….
I’m not a hunter. Compared to me, even Mitt Romney looks like Daniel Boone. I have nothing against hunting, it’s…
Now that’s what I call a backlash. The owner of a small German computer company has fired three non-smoking workers…
We’ve talked about recycling and voluntary reduction as a way of dealing with the plastic bag problem. Here’s another approach,…
Is it just me, or does anyone else get a wee bit edgy when sci-fi plotlines become news? A doomsday…
Dith Pran, the Cambodian journalist on whose life the movie “The Killing Fields” was based, has died of cancer at…
Good times in Ireland are bad times for the pubs
Closed Published by Charles Kuffner January 1st, 1970 on Off the KuffBehold the dark side of prosperity. As recently as the 1980s, young people had to leave Ireland to find work…
I’d never heard of this before, but it’s very cool. t was probably the most ingenious student prank of all…