Buzzing Off
Tuesday was an eventful day, in a thoroughly mundane sense. There was a wasp in my kitchen. Naturally, I am afraid of wasps. And my death-dealing, ultra-poisonous magical wasp-slaying spray? Under the...
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Three or four people have already asked me about the wasp I heroically fought Tuesday morning, and I have been ashamed to tell them I never did find the body of my (presumably) slain opponent. I did my...
View ArticleAnimal Kingdom, Worthington Style
Along with all the crime and accidents Worthington and Nobles County law enforcement officers investigate every day, there also a few weird calls. Normally we don’t put these into the paper, because...
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The Origin of the Surprised Kitty
Earlier I linked to the Surprised Kitten, an internet sensation that, like the Dramatic Chipmunk and the Dancing Hamsters, have become a bizarre "everyone’s seen it" kind of thing. Much to my surprise,...
View ArticleHeroes and Villains
One of the top 5 most-viewed stories on our site today has been the sad tale of the complete wackjob who glued a cat to the local interstate. The idea that the person who did this likely lives within...
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He Hit You with a What?!?
Photo from Fox 4 News of Dallas-Fort Wort A man allegedly hit a woman with a frozen armadillo in Texas recently. Apparently everything’s weirder in Texas. You can’t make this kind of stuff up because...
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I Live in Absolute Terror
My neighbors have been hearing all sorts of screaming, screeching, yelping and thudding around my apartment lately, as I have attempted to stem the tide of the moth invasion with spray poison and phone...
View ArticleSpider Lies on Facebook
I am terribly afraid of spiders, so I was a bit squeamish about debunking a few of the false spider-related posts on Facebook. I Used to be an Adventurer Like You Until I Took a Spider to the Butt One...
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Invasion of the Lake Snatchers
Zebra mussels have apparently invaded the lake my grandparents’ cabin is on. This is not good news, as the mussels are an invasive species famous for encrusting everything put into a lake, including...
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The Mission: Impossible Episode That Doesn’t Work
While I absolutely adore the old TV classic Mission: Impossible, I have to admit my suspension of disbelief will only go so far. Greg Morris’s amazing techno-gadgets seem plausible now that we have...
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Possible New Mascot: SpellCat
Mew. SpellCat sez: Spel RITE. Actually, I think all she actually says is “Mew.” Which, roughly translated, means “Do not abuse the humble apostrophe, for it is our friend.”
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Dogs Who Survived Puppy Mill Need Families
Many of the dogs rescued from puppy mills have lasting issues. Some of them are health-related, like urinary tract infections, dental problems that have required removal of teeth or worse. Other issues...
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Anger Over Cecil The Lion Isn’t About Cecil The Lion
People have already begun to question the anger over the killing of Cecil, a lion that lived quite happily in a Zimbabwe national park until Walter J. Palmer, a Minnesota dentist originally from North...
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