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I don’t normally watch NBC’s Meet the Press. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the program, but my viewership goes back to my childhood. On Sunday mornings, the show simply got beat out by cartoons. As an adult, I don’t normally watch cartoons—until this morning.

I became familiar with Bill Nye, when my husband, Blake Webster, interviewed him for his book, “Environmentalists in ...

The Nut Job!

Apparently there is a growing (pun intended) concern in California’s San Joaquin Valley surrounding walnut heists. One of the most recent involved the theft of 140,000 pounds of hulled and dried walnuts worth an estimated $400,000. Unfortunately this was not an isolated incident—agricultural crime is on the rise. Some believe the Russians are behind it—I kid you not. One suspect was detained in Bakersfield, where he told police that he ...

It has been reported that W.C Fields, each morning, on the way to the movie studio, would dictate his P-Ps to his live-in secretary as he sipped from one of several flasks that would get him through his day. These Pet-Peeves were later mailed to politicians, movie studio moguls, corporations, financial institutions, doctors, law firms and anyone else who deserved his wrath and wisdom.

George Carlin wrote the New York Times Bestseller, BRAINDROPPINGS, ...