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Plastic bags are well-nigh immortal. In many cases they will survive for over 100 years as landfill waste or litter, and can be used by vampires for lunch bags.

After examining about a week of my emails not long ago, I realized how far we’ve come from the lovely hand-written letters we wrote when writing was an art.

Over the past several months, just about everyone I know came down with what everybody loves to call a “stomach flu.” Well, this condition is sometimes as confusing to doctors as it is to victims.

Mexico is a religious nation without being a theocracy. But it is still a nation where Catholicism plays a political role – locally, over many issues related to the poor and women.

I have always wondered how mammals, our live-bearing creatures with recently-discovered impressive brains, got back into the sea.

If you’re anything like me, you’re feeling guilty about speaking Spanglish in such a way that it sounds like it might be deep-state code for a coup.