Students at Chiles Elementary School had a chance to be space engineers Friday. ...more

May 16, 2009

no, an obligation - to offer the young people of this great nation some sound advice, such as "stay out of my yard, whippersnapper" or "get a haircut, you darn hippy." ...more

March 8, 2009

Do the kids hate brushing their teeth? Maybe they can create a toothbrush that excites them and their peers to scrub their pearly whites. ...more

December 20, 2008

Astronauts tinkered Sunday on a troublesome piece of equipment which can convert urine and sweat into drinkable water once it's functioning and allow the international space station to grow to six crew members. ...more

November 23, 2008

A giraffe in love with a hippo, a zebra with an identity crisis, a lion desperate to win his newfound daddy's respect - the makers of "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" could have plunked their heroes down in a therapist's office for an animals-with-issues session. ...more

November 6, 2008

It must go back to the afternoons my sisters, brother and I spent poring over Sears and Penney's catalogues, laboring for hours to decide on the One True Toy we wanted. ...more

November 2, 2008

It wasn't a person drowning in the driver's seat of a car at the bottom of a retention pond. It was a dummy strapped into a contraption made of PVC pipe and construction mesh at the bottom of a swimming pool. ...more

August 27, 2008

It wasn't a person drowning in the driver's seat of a car at the bottom of retention pond. It was a dummy strapped into a contraption made of PVC pipe and construction mesh at the bottom of a swimming pool. ...more

August 26, 2008

PORT RICHEY -- Go to any decent sized mall and you can expect to be able to buy certain things: clothing, greeting cards, home furnishings, cell phones, jewelry, lotions, notions and various bric-a-brac. At Gulf View Square, shoppers can purchase something not found at most shopping centers, a chance to defy gravity as the payload in a human slingshot. ...more

August 1, 2008

I love Brussels sprouts, beets and pickled pigs feet. Actually I don't, but I can't say I dislike brussels sprouts, beets and pickled pigs feet without running the risk of offending that minority group of people who produce Brussels sprouts, beets and pickled pigs feet. To do so would not be politically correct. Political correctness, or PC, which should not be confused with the contraption most likely currently sitting on your desk, "is a term used to describe language, ideas, policies or behavior seen as seeking to minimize offense to gender, racial, cultural, disabled, aged or other identity groups." Although it apparently is not politically incorrect for members within one of these groups to use offending language or gestures on other members within the same group. ...more

July 4, 2008