And the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.” — Genesis 6:7
Author: Scott Bowles
If complaining is an art, I am Picasso. If it’s bullshittery, I am Ferdinand. So please excuse my latest deposit, whatever its contents. I can’t help myself. But why the oxygen-depleted approach to Hurricane Harvey when it comes to a connection with global warming? Has this somehow become a political issue, too? Last night, …
Don’t take this the wrong way (Don’t you love sentences that start that way? They state something that’s already pre-ordained: “Don’t take this the wrong way” means “You’re about to take this the wrong way;” “Nothing personal” means “You are about to hear something personal;” “No offense” means “You are about to be offended;” …
Arf: Dogs poop in alignment with Earth’s magnetic field. The world’s oldest lived to 29. Humans and dogs first became best friends 30,000 years ago. Every dog’s mitochondrial DNA is 99.9% the same as a gray wolf. In English-speaking countries, the most popular names for dogs are Max and Molly. Dogs and cats only sweat from their foot pads and nose. Dogs have 13 blood types, horses have 8, cows have 9 while humans only have 4. Paul McCartney recorded an ultrasonic whistle audible only to dogs at …
I’ve resigned myself to some things I will never fully fathom: the electoral college; women; Pokemon GO (a videogame that requires you to go outside and walk? That’s the opposite purpose of itself. That’s like a treadmill-powered Twinkie dispenser.). But I’m having real trouble with this concept, which I guess is more a question: …
Enough. Enough with the attempts to define news. Enough with the mock outrage over a lack of objectivity. Enough with pretending that “social” media is somehow different from its “mainstream” sibling. It isn’t. Make no mistake: They are siblings, if not identical twins. That we in the ancient media of print and television ever …
A horrible thought just occurred to me. You know how dogs sleep? Usually with their feet skipping along, to accompanying mini-yips. It’s really cute. But then I realized: We assume a dog is having a pleasant dream when we see that. Perhaps images of untrodden fields and unsniffed anuses. Yet my dog never acts …
As a lifelong reporter, my father lived in notepads. All journalists do. Dad, however, did some serious scribbling. You wouldn’t say he took copious notes because that would be a disservice to dad and the word. It doesn’t come close to dad’s style. He must have had thousands of notebooks. He kept every one. …
