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Open up just about any deck of cards (sorry, pinochle!) and you’ll find the same thing — 52 [...]

Pictured above is, perhaps, the most iconic video game character ever created. It’s Mario, of course, [...]

Hi!  In the March 13, 2020 Weekender, I made a passing reference at the end to Monopoly — and not [...]

For many cities, garbage is an unyielding problem. We make a lot of it and often, there’s nowhere for [...]

Badminton is a sport that, for many, is an informal summertime outdoor activity. You string a net across a [...]

As the saying goes: You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s [...]

The late comedian Mitch Hedberg once observed that “an escalator can never break: it can only become [...]

There are many dangers in life, way too many to list here. But let’s pick a few anyway. Don’t [...]

In the early 1990s, I made a bet with my brother. I don’t remember, exactly, what the bet was over [...]