None here. My house burned down when I was 17. But my kids have their most precious security objects from early childhood carefully stored, and they get them out occasionally.

Not me. I have no death wish.

I can't help but picture someone dumping a kitten by throwing it down an embankment. Hooray for the maternal dog!

I find some neat things while finding pictures for articles. Leon and Shirley Sylver, the parents of the black family pictured, were contestants in the '60s. Several of their kids sang on the show. Eventually, nine of their ten kids would form a singing group The Sylvers.

I don't think you can blame the internet any more than you can blame robots, outsourcing, deregulation, consolidation, or other particular thing. They all come together to ensure that we need fewer people to get all the work done. That's the problem that keeps people unemployed.

What we need is an entirely new system that takes excess people out of the workforce without making them poor. One thing we are doing is extending education later into adulthood, but at an enormous cost. We could also have people retire earlier, but we'd have to support them. Or we could have everyone work part time, less than 40 hours a week. The only problem with any of those ideas is that money would have to redistributed so that everyone could have a decent income, even in the times that their labor is not required for the continuation of society.

Wait! Wait! I got it!

Ethics aside, I've always heard that it's not healthy to eat apex predators. When you eat a cat, you're eating red meat that has lived off red meat, which has too many of certain chemicals to be healthy.

Where they got the music.

I learned a similar rule early in my radio career. Never start an ad with a question, because the listener will immediately be prompted to answer it instead of listening to your pitch. Just tell them what the situation is. It was difficult to get sponsors to understand this.

Once you know how it ends, go back and notice the difference between the two in skipping rocks, the shadows, the huffing and puffing, the size of the glasses, and quite a few other clues you didn't see the first time.

Abercrombie & Fitch markets to children. Mine couldn't get enough of the brand name (and American Eagle and Aeropostale) until they were about 13, then they outgrew it, psychologically. Cool is a lot more than wearing a label to announce that you're a certain size (as if that weren't already apparent). And the price doesn't mean much, at least where I live, because Goodwill is full of those clothes.

Sure, elephants can jump! All they need is a proper trampoline.

I hope they also got a guarantee of continued employment for a set number of years along with the tat.

If I were a Middle Eastern model and actor, I'd start that rumor, too.

The average household income in my county is $21,195. I guess you could save half of that somehow, but having any savings at all would make a family ineligible for food stamps and Medicaid, which would be hard if you're trying to live on $11K a year. And it still wouldn't be enough to fund a 50 year retirement.