"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination." - Mark Twain Today I felt the happiest I have since I left my Aaron. Me and my classics set (all 5 of us!) went to Manchester to listen to some lectures, which I slept...
Sky headline, just before 3 PM, UK time: Hundreds of passengers and crew!? On two jets!? Tenerife all over again!? Uh, not exactly. Read on: …Both Boeing 747 planes were damaged as they ran into each other while being towed at...
Reader Nick Valenzio of Palm Springs, Calif., wonders if "the California wildfires might just be God showing his displeasure at the outcome of Proposition 8?" In a 1994 column, I idiotically compared "computer bulletin boards"...
Nov 18, 2008 (Zap2It - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Like the rumors about Mark Twain, reports of Miley Cyrus' death have been greatly exaggerated. The "Hannah Montana" star is alive and kicking despite...
Officials from OnForce say that demand for VoIP remains steady, but that the drop to fifth place for the third quarter behind security, peripherals, consumer electronics and wiring-and-cabling indicates that IP telephony is...
A Murder, A Mystery & A Marriage' is a clever new musical comedy based on the short story by Mark Twain. The zany small town of Deer Lick, Missouri is thrown into frenzy when a mysterious visitor arrives. A young romance is put...
RAF Lakenheath author offers advice on keeping it all together By Geoff Ziezulewicz, Stars and Stripes UK weekly edition, Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Geoff Ziezulewicz / S&S Roderick O. Clarke is a retired Marine and an...
As part of its Depth of Field film series, the Townsend Center for the Humanities will show the Academy Award-nominated documentary 'War Dance. The film, directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, follows a group of Ugandan...
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for November 18, 2008 is: blithesome • \BLYTHE-sum\ • adj : gay, merry Example sentence: In The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day, Mark Twain's Laura, who had been struck by love, wondered why she...
The Washington state GOP needs to stand for something again. By Randy Pepple Special to The Times MUCH has been written in the past week about the demise of the Republican Party in Washington state. A negative trifecta like...