I’ve been mentally planning a trip to India for several years — will get to it eventually — and the way I’ll be doing it is on a luxury cruise train.

A mark, a yen, a buck or a pound
...a buck or a pound
...a buck or a pound.
Is all that makes the world go around
That clinking, clanking sound...
Can make the world go ‘round

“I am just an average college student.”

The only thing the *resident had to approve was use of a military jet to fly the remains (and family) back to Arizona.

the importance that guns play for New Zealanders, especially rural communities that rely on them for pest control

Don’t be silly. Bernie was just a child growing up in Brooklyn in 1777.

breaking a story about Mr. Bezos’ affair would burnish the Enquirer’s reputation for breaking news

That’s one hotsy-totsy Sheba! Her gams are the cat’s pajamas. That tomato knows her onions; what a choice bit of calico!

Why isn’t Jose Cuervo invited? That’s discrimination.

Alaskans should be pissed about that image, showing the largest state as nothing but a puny bicep.

unfairly rejected from the colleges he applied to

What’s the big deal? If you’re running, it makes sense to reach out to every past candidate, winner or loser. They should all have useful knowledge.

the EPA is trying to create a new nationwide standard that would require clean ups on federal sites to prevent PFAS from entering drinking water

I’d say that being in a movie about two white boys escaping prison in apartheid S. Africa isn’t going to be a good look, no matter how he actually looks.

At least she’s getting a quality education. I wish I had known how to get onto a billionaire’s yacht at her age.

I don’t know when the Jexodus is, but I finally found a place to wear my Jeggings.

Some (maybe most) of the copyrights are held by non-profit orgs, so they might use the income for good purposes, but a good translation entails years of work, and translators need to eat, too.

Fat Wallet Boys

Even the Revised Standard Version, published in 1952, is still under copyright. Basically any 20th century translation is still copyright protected, unless it was published before 1924. (Yes, the length of copyright protection is absurd in the US, thanks to DisneyCorp.)