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  • Believe It or Not

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    1 Robert Ripley launched his franchise Believe It or Not in 1919, offering readers bizarre and little-known facts as entertainment and challenge to received knowledge or wisdom. He employed dogged researchers to uncover and publish the little or unknown bits… Read More ›

  • What is Your Emergency?

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  • The Great Scott!

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    The exclamation Great Scott! is called a “minced oath,” a euphemism to mollify use of or profaning a term or word, like gosh for God. The exclamation has been a favorite of Superman for decades. Whether it applies or ought… Read More ›

  • ICYMI……………..February 28, 1983

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    Editors’ Note: As this post goes to press, we mark the passing of Sally Kellerman, M*A*S*H’s “Hot Lips Houlihan.” May she RIP. A mere thirty-nine years ago today, the final episode of the smash TV series M*A*S*H played to the… Read More ›

  • Outside the Novahood

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    DOG WHISTLES AT THE BEACH According to a Virginia Beach School Board member, educating “South Americans is not sustainable.” The comment was made on the member’s personal Facebook page in connection with discussion of the school budget and the number of… Read More ›

  • Miyares Myopia

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    A catchy news headline about money in Australian politics captured the essence of the behavior of politicians: “If You Can Get Away With Things, You Do It.” Pundits and political scribes are often inclined to remind readers in a sober… Read More ›

  • Monument Men at VA Museum

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    Editors’ Note: Excerpted from The New York Times, February 25, 2022. By Graham Bowley For months before the bombs started falling, Hayden Bassett watched over the cultural riches of Ukraine — the cathedrals of Kyiv, the historic buildings of Lviv,… Read More ›

  • Not So Long Ago

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    Sometimes it is inexorably attractive to rely upon canards such as Rule #39 – “There are no coincidences” – from the TV show NCIS. A converse can be said to be “if the glove doesn’t fit, you must acquit” –the… Read More ›

  • So Passe

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  • Up, Down, North, South    

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    Most folks relate “up” with north and “down” with south. East and west are, at best, consigned to left and right as in describing California as the Left Coast. North and south are two of the cardinal directions within the… Read More ›