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LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Eric Lieberman A police officer and local squirrel got in a little tussle Friday in Brockport, N.Y. just after the wild animal was snacking on some cookies in a nearby home. The furry creature somehow found its way into the upstate N.Y. house and helped itself to some treats in…
LISTEN TO TLR LATEST PODCAST: Thomas Phippen An un-ticketed bird trapped in the cockpit of a plane flying out of Detroit forced pilots to ground the flight out of “abundance of caution” Saturday. The bird — described as small, perhaps a sparrow or a hummingbird — somehow got into the cockpit of the Delta plane…
LISTEN TO TLR LATEST PODCAST: Joe Simonson Looks like some have moved beyond debates about sex education in public schools and are instead advocating something new — such as buying children sex toys. Ellen Scott, the Lifestyle editor for the United Kingdom’s Metro.co.uk, wrote in an op-ed Saturday that parents should consider purchasing masturbation tools for their…
LISTEN TO TLR LATEST PODCAST: Ryan Pickrell North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un kicked off the new year with a nuclear warning to the U.S. The young despot announced that all of the U.S. mainland is in range, asserting that he has a button to order a nuclear strike against the U.S. installed on his…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Tim Pearce A Connecticut court denied a lawsuit Tuesday from animal rights activists to grant three zoo elephants the legal rights to “bodily integrity and bodily liberty,” The Washington Post reports. Nonhuman Rights Project attorney Steven Wise filedthe suit to the Connecticut Superior Court in November. The elephants — Beulah, Karen…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: I was recently at a family gathering when I got into a discussion about high school math with some younger relatives. One revealed a love for math that I didn’t know existed. In fact, she surprised me by explaining that she had taken many of the advanced math classes…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Students of the modern education system usually receive some version of the following historical tale of the West, aptly summarized by scholar David Bentley Hart: “Once upon a time… Western humanity was the cosseted and incurious ward of Mother Church; during this, the age of faith, culture stagnated, science languished,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: For those of us who love vintage television shows, New Year’s means The Twilight Zone Marathon, a tradition of over 30 years’ standing which airs on the cable Syfy Channel. A classic fantasy/science fiction TV series created by Rod Serling (who also authored many of the scripts), The Twilight Zone…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Amy Fabbrini and Eric Ziegler of Redmond, Oregon, did something this Christmas that many parents take for granted: they celebrated it with their child. The couple’s 10-month-old son Hunter had been in foster care almost since the day he was born. But last week, The Oregonian reports, a judge declared…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Thomas Phippen The record cold temperatures in the Northeast are wreaking havoc on New Years Eve celebrations and ocean life alike, as two sharks died of apparent cold shock off the coast of Massachusetts this week, according to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy (AWSC). The sharks were “likely stranded due…