Don’t Trust Internet warnings
Good Morning Comments Updated: Feb 04, 2013 1:01amBy Jerry Lincecum
Guest columnist
Most readers have probably read or heard about the prominent college football player who carried on a three-year Internet romance with a woman who did...
A little fat can’t hurt
Good Morning Comments Updated: Jan 20, 2013 9:58amThinking back to your childhood days, how many fat people do you remember? Oh, we had a lot of euphemisms, such as chubby, husky, pleasingly plump. But I don’t recall there being that many of them...
Why do we yawn?
Good Morning Comments Updated: Jan 17, 2013 1:01amNowadays there are few things we humans do that scientists don’t have explanations for.
Dr. Robert Provine, at the University of Maryland, is an advocate of what he calls “sidewalk...
Paper towels work well
Good Morning Comments Updated: Dec 28, 2012 1:01amOld-timers like me remember when clean public restrooms were few and far between. If a towel was provided, it was made of thin, cheap cloth and ran on a continuous loop. A bar of soap was rarely...
Taking a look at word origins
Good Morning Comments Updated: Mar 26, 2012 11:02pmThe history of words, which is called “etymology,” has always been interesting to me.
Think about the word “panhandle.” Texas has one and so do Oklahoma and Florida, if you define it as a...
Titanic is back on the big screen
Good Morning Comments Updated: Mar 06, 2012 12:01amAs the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic approaches on April 15, one of the signal events will be a re-release of James Cameron’s epic movie that starred Leonardo DeCaprio and Kate...
