Various Articles
Hugh Hefner died last week. While I don’t revel in his death, the phrase ‘good riddance’ did cross my mind. Hefner contributed heavily to bringing pornography to the mainstream, making it more easily accessible and normalized. Grieving his death never entered my mind.
...
Have you heard of the American hero Bass Reeves?
In 1838 Bass Reeves was born into slavery in Arkansas to Arkansas state legislator William Steele Reeves. His master refused to let him learn to read and write, but did teach him to shoot so he could serve as a bodyguard and hunt food. He believed knowledge was much more dangerous than a firearm.
...
Back in Rochester, once on the way home from work, I asked Gaylene if anything interesting had happened at work that day. She said well, she heard there was another floaties sighting.
I said "What??
"Oh you didn’t hear of the bath floaties?"
Obviously I had not.
If you are not familiar with the story, I will summarize what she told me:
...
Are you familiar with the Horseshoe crab?
Did you know that their blood is blue? Humans have red blood since our blood is based on iron, but the Horseshoe crab’s blood is based on copper, so it is more like baby blue.
Did you know that most of us have a minute quantity of their blood inside of us?
Backing up the story…..
