TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

I have been a State Farm customer for 60+ years, ever since my first car and apartment.  Recently I've noticed a change in their billing...

 “To the people of the United States of America: you realize that you are being seen by the rest of the world as no better than Russia, no b...

When I saw this headline (and other versions of it on other news sites), I went ballistic.  I'm an old English major with an enormous v...

Hats off to the Minnesota Star Tribune for posting this pair of images side-by-side.  I had seen the photo on the right and wanted to use i...

"The only hotel in North America to be found in a major league sports and entertainment venue, the Toronto Marriott City Centre has 348...

In 2012 fewer than 10% of the egg-laying hens in the US were cage-free. Instead the vast majority were raised in enclosures that longtime an...

"Scalpers have been known to buy and resell hot tickets for big-name music acts or sporting events, like Taylor Swift concerts and the ...

Excerpts from the transcript of an As It Happens podcast: A couple in Nova Scotia are desperately seeking a match for their five year old G...

Via the conservativeterrorism subreddit , where it is noted that no official government correspondence ever has a handwritten address, and t...

"An Ohio sheriff’s lieutenant has apologized – and been merely reprimanded – after authoring social media posts boasting about how he w...

During the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Bosnian Serb fighters took roughly 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys to predetermined sites before kil...

A plea from Jose Andres expressed in a public essay: In the worst conditions you can imagine — after hurricanes, earthquakes, bombs and gun...

In a thought-provoking article in The Atlantic , David Brooks postulates that in this country politics has expanded to fill a "moral va...

I don't remember where it was I ran across a review of this book (probably Harper's or The Atlantic ), but it sounded interesting. ...

From a report in The Guardian : In March 2021, sheriffs in Etowah county, Alabama, arrested Ashley Caswell on accusations that she’d tested ...

“Read Me a Story, Stella” is a children’s picture book about a pair of siblings reading books together and building a doghouse. However, bec...

Excerpts from "See No Evil", published in Harper's Magazine , March 2023: From a November discussion on the Eyes Left podcast...

Incredibly, this question (posed by a Norwegian philosopher and originally published in the Journal of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics ) ...