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If you're still wondering what is going to go with your main dish for Thanksgiving, give these side dishes a try.

Would you ditch the pumpkin pie for these Thanksgiving desserts instead?

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For more than two decades, she rendered death row prisoners’ requests for a last meal on a series of plates, bringing a human face to capital punishment.

From the Seamaster to the Speedmaster, OMEGA delivers on performance watches for everyday life.

No, there is no gas here. But back in 1927, E.F. Boydston built it as a gas station. Later, he decided to cover its exterior with chunks of petrified wood, perhaps inspired by a similar gas station in Colorado, or by Petrified Wood Park in South Dakota. Boydston covered the walls of his next-door cafe and tourist cabins as well. (One of the motor court cabins was supposedly rented by Bonnie and Clyde a couple of weeks before they died.)

The cafe closed in 1964 and passed into the hands of Nancy Rosendahl, one of E.F.'s grandchildren. She and her husband Jim spent the next decade restoring the entire complex to its post-WWII glory days, which they said peaked around 1953. The old gas pumps are still out front but the interior has been remodeled as a personal office. There is parking and the place definitely photographs well. It's interesting and worth a stop to see.

Via CNS: (CNSNews.com) – The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics announced on Friday that 100,450,000 people in this country were not in the labor force in October, up 38,000 from the 100,412,000 in September. This is the 14th straight month that this “not in the labor force” number has remained above 100,000,000. Persons who […]

Popular whiskeys in the U.S. span from the affordable to more expensive, but the quality is there regardless of price.

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A trusty no-rinse wash? Something affordable? We've got our top picks for the best car wash products available today.

Pyramid schemes are a shady business model if you can even classify them as businesses.  The pyramid scheme business model makes money from recruiting new people into its scheme on an ongoing basis. It’s not about marketing a product. It’s all about dishonest con artists marketing get-rich schemes to unsuspecting individuals, who, if they can […]

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Several destinations now require you purchase travel insurance before your big trip. Here are the rules.

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"Ginger Baker turned around, looked at me for half a second, then went back to the gorgeous girl he was talking to."

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Researchers have finally discovered how water flowing deep below the earth’s surface changes the ocean’s chemical makeup. The water that seeps into the ocean along coastlines all over the world, known as groundwater discharge, has a significant impact on the composition of seawater, according to a recent study. This is because…

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In The Common Sense of Science, the Polish-British mathematician Jacob Bronowski wrote that “at the basis of human thought lies the judgment of what is like and what is unlike.”

Unfortunately, public policies often mistakenly treat people that are unlike in crucial ways as if they are alike.

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Castle Films were noted for licensing 8mm versions of famous movies that were sold commercially. The only problem was that the films were basically very short versions of the original movies with absurdly brief running times. Still, this was hot stuff for collectors in in the era of pre-home video. What makes this 7 minute condensation of "Psycho" unusual is that the person who posted it on YouTube says it was from a 16mm version of the film, which would have been outside of Castle's 8mm line. Not sure what the intended audience was for this version since very few consumers had access to a 16mm projector. Still, whoever edited this version did a fairly admirable job of including most of the key elements. In any event, if you ever wanted to watch a movie masterpiece but had only 7 minutes to spare, your ship has come in!  

As they say, a lie can travel around the world before the truth gets out of bed. I recall telling my Mom that you can't go swimming for an hour after eating. She said, "You're not doing laps for the Olympics. You're just playing in the water. Go on." And she was right, even if that didn't quite debunk the myth. We call them old wives' tales or urban legends, but there are people who will argue with you about these myths today. Some may have once had a reason behind them, or at least faulty reasoning that seemed to make sense at the time, while others are just made up of whole cloth, like eating spiders in your sleep.

You know what can make you feel old? I can remember when some of these untrue "facts" were considered "news" or at least new research findings. See all 14 myths that aren't true at Cracked.

STOCKHOLM — Many people are drawn to the idea that their blood type determines their personality, or that certain foods may enhance a person’s body type based on their blood. While these beliefs are not necessarily fact, a recent study does indicate that blood types may actually make people prone to certain diseases. Researchers say…

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Looking for a great-tasting drink? Consider these sprits for the best spiked apple cider of the season.

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Here's what you need to make the best Mexican Hot Chocolate.

It is not hyperbole to say that Edward Durr, a 58-year-old truck driver from New Jersey, just pulled off one of the biggest political upsets in American history.

With a bare-bones campaign that reportedly cost less than $6,000 (some earlier reports claimed that Durr spent just $153 on the race, but Durr later clarified that was not a full accounting), Durr ousted New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney (D–West Deptford) in Tuesday's election. After previously calling the race for Sweeney and then withdrawing that call, the Associated Press called the race for Durr on Thursday morning. He has a lead of over 2,000 votes with 99 percent of precincts reporting.

Sweeney, who was seeking a seventh term in the Senate, is widely regarded as a kingpin in New Jersey politics and one of the most powerful men in the state. He has been president of the state Senate since 2010, the longest tenure in state history. He was expected to be a front-runner in the 2025 gubernatorial race and this year's election was "never considered more than an afterthought," according to NJ.com. After all, Sweeney had survived one of the most expensive legislative races in American history in 2017—when teachers unions had bucked their usual political alignment to spend heavily in support of Sweeney's Republican challenger.

But Sweeney was no match for Durr, a political novice who drives a delivery truck for a regional chain of furniture stores.

"I don't know if I truly am fearless or stupid. Because who in their right mind would take on a person with that kind of power and clout?" Durr told NJ.com. "But his power, his clout, did not scare me."

If that's not the most fundamentally American political statement, I don't know what is.

Durr's homemade campaign ads featured him climbing down from his trucking rig, driving a motorcycle, and promising to support cutting taxes. The production value of his online ads was possibly even lower. It didn't matter, because he got more votes than the polished, besuited Sweeney.

Hello NJ, I am Edward Durr, the Republican senate candidate for legislative district 3. I'm a father of 3 & grandfather of 6. Life long resident of NJ. Not seeking power or fame, only give the people better representation. Lower taxes! Transparency! @nj1015 @1210WPHT @GlouCoGOP pic.twitter.com/YiOCzFjtSw

— Edward Durr (@edwarddurr1) July 23, 2021

It's dangerous to make sweeping conclusions about state legislative races, which by their nature are fundamentally local affairs even in an age when political narratives are routinely nationalized. Durr's victory could be a startling signal that residents of reliably blue southwestern New Jersey are fed up with Democratic leadership in Washington, D.C., and Trenton. More likely, it's part of an ongoing backlash against mask mandates, COVID-19 lockdowns, and other destructive policies that emerged during the pandemic. In his ads and other public comments, Durr stressed that Sweeney did not do enough to push back against Gov. Phil Murphy's COVID-19 policies. (Murphy, a Democrat, narrowly won reelection this week in a closer-than-expected race.)

"You have the debacle of unemployment. The masking of the kids in school. You have Senator Sweeney trying to take away peoples' [sic] medical freedom rights," Durr told Politico. He went on to say that he sees himself as a "constitutional conservative" and that he became interested in politics after trying to navigate New Jersey's strict gun control laws in order to secure a concealed carry permit.

Here's one conclusion you can decisively draw about Durr's incredible upset: It wasn't about money. Durr's victory is another reminder that for all the pearl clutching about money in politics, contemporary American campaigns are less determined by big piles of cash—to pay for massive ad blitzes, expensive consultants, and the like—than ever. Social media and the internet have leveled the playing field, allowing old-school retail politics to evolve in new ways. You can now take down one of the most powerful men in state politics with a campaign ad filmed on an iPhone.

Durr just did it.

To make your Thanksgiving dinner even more joyous, choose one of these wines that will enhance all options, including classic turkey, vegan choices and the all-important leftovers.

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From the brand's beginnings to the modern day.

Casio makes a rugged G-Shock in just about every color and for every type of person.

You've heard the phrase "dead as a doornail" before, but it never made much sense, because all inanimate objects are just as dead. Besides, doors are now more likely to be held together with staples and glue than with nails. Maybe whoever coined the phrase just liked the alliteration. But there's more to it than that.

This video starts off talking about the phrase, but fairly quickly turns into a chapter in the history of carpentry. It has to do with the particular challenge of joining flat slabs of hand-hewn wood side-to-side to build a door, back when nails were hand-made. The video ends up being way more interesting than you expect. -via reddit

These Belgian-styled beers are available right here at home.

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