by Kevin Burton I am not definitively saying that Wal-Mart, distributor of Vibrant Life cat litter, is squeezing customers financially. I didn’t do the documentation. You see, my boyhood pastime of reading the back of cereal boxes did not linger into adulthood and cause me to read for information, such things as cat …
Action, Progress, Habit In A Walk With God
by Kevin Burton There is a song I love by the band Chicago called “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is.” Did you ever notice, it starts with walking? The song’s philosophical statement is about the rat race. It’s about living up to the world’s standards and being in a big, ever-increasing …
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Doctors Perform First Whole Eye Transplant
by Jacqueline Howard CNN It was a moment Meagan James never expected to witness. A surgical team at NYU Langone Health in New York had performed the world’s first successful whole-eye transplant in a living person: her husband, Aaron James. After an accident at work led to the loss of his left …
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Blind Woman Wants To Cycle New Zealand
by Radio New Zealand An Invercargill woman is on a mission to become the first blind wahine toa to cycle the length of Aotearoa. Hannah Pascoe came seventh in the tandem women's road race at the Para Cycling Road World Cup in May. She told First Up that as she was moving towards retirement, …
More Words For Crimes And Misdemeanors
by Kevin Burton Children utter phrases such as “cross my heart, hope to die” to self-administer a kind of playground oath. But it’s not binding. Today our friends at Merriam-Webster bring us words dealing with what we say, or refuse to say, under a legal oath in a court of law. But …
Words From The Wrong Side Of The Law
by Kevin Burton Some of the entries on today’s word list from Merriam-Webster I learned as a wee lad, by following the news about the federal government. If it hadn’t been for the Nixon Administration and the Watergate scandal, I would have thought hush money was money a parent spends to keep the …
New Beatles Song Is Neither Now Nor Then
by Kevin Burton Think of the individual Beatles’ colossal talents, with egos to match. Think of the group putting together an album. It’s John Lennon trying to get his songs on the record, Paul McCartney doing the same and George Harrison fighting to be heard at all. There is creativity, artistry, but …
Cowboys Have Longest Title Draught In Dallas
by Kevin Burton Sports fans in North Texas and coast to coast, gather round. As we honor the new kings of baseball, the Texas Rangers, who won their first World Series Wednesday, let’s also take a look at the sports landscape in Dallas. Clarence E Hill Jr. of the Fort Worth Star …
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Texas Rangers Redeem Echoes Of The Senators
by Kevin Burton Futility, barren and bleak as it gets, has been the hallmark of the Texas Rangers. But Wednesday, with the Yankees and Dodgers on their couches at home, The Rangers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-0 to finish off a four-games-to-one, World Series win. World Series win. Texas Rangers? Yes indeed, …
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English Words That Came From Products
by Kevin Burton We’ve got moxie in a can. We’ve got monkey bars and monkey business, and it all comes from Merriam-Webster. This list from the dictionary highlights products that hit the market with varying success but had more staying power as words in the English language. So maybe the inventor didn’t get …
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