Day 530: The Bestselling Hoaxes

originally published June 13, 2013 The notion that ‘sex sells’ is a concept older than advertising itself. The beauty within that tiny catchphrase is that, for a long time, advertisers could manipulate the concept and the public really had no idea that they were merely succumbing to the prodding of their most base urges. We […]

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Day 528: Fully Mooned Fever

originally published June 11, 2013 In the wild, the act of exposing one’s hindquarters to another of one’s species is generally looked upon as an act of sexual submission, an invitation to taxi down the ol’ carnal runway, cross-check for predators in the bushes, then take flight in a wild spree of jungle-humping like the […]

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Day 527: When Molasses Attacks!

originally published June 10, 2013 I know – 1919 was a very different age. Morals were gauged by what now seems an antiquated perspective, cultural dynamics were driven by significantly different forces, and the very fundamental tenets of American life existed within parameters and motivations that would have been radically different than those which we […]

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Day 525: Wherefore Art Thou, Pluto?

originally published June 8, 2013 Poor, poor Pluto. For many people, the demotion of Pluto from the ranks of the Elite Nine backing vocalists to the Sun’s great whizzbang show was nothing short of a tragedy. Rallies were held, people marched through the streets with pale orange warpaint smeared across their sweaty faces, and supporters […]

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Day 523: The Pilecki Affair

originally published June 6, 2013 Anyone with even a little Polish blood fluming through their veins may want to pour themselves a tall glass of national pride while they read today’s article. There are war heroes, there are kick-ass war heroes, and then there’s Witold Pilecki. In August of 1943, Pilecki singlehandedly changed the very […]

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