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The world is full of loonies.

A few years ago, it was Y2K. All kinds of folks were warning us to stockpile bottled water and buy a portable generator to keep our electric appliances running when the world shut down at the turn of the century because of a vicious computer glitch. Transportation was going to fall into shambles, disease would be rampant, and to keep warm, we’d have to all start wearing blankets and burn furniture. And we wouldn’t get any mail, either. ...more...

I regularly complain about my college students’ lack of cultural knowledge. For example, when I refer to the movie “The Matrix” in class, I’m met with blank stares. If I try to quote Bette Davis in “All About Eve,” saying “Fasten your seat belts. It’s going to be a bumpy night,” they look at me like I’m talking Klingon.

Or at least, that’s what they would think if any of them had ever seen a Star Trek television episode.

Which they haven’t.

So to remedy this appalling lack of cultural knowledge, I have made it my crusade to educate my own little corner of the world: my 15-year-old daughter. Last summer, we rented and watched classic movies so she’d know what her teachers were talking about when they threw out lines like “I’m ...more...

(Today’s column was supplied by my newly-launched private news-gathering organization, Dunlap World Intel.)

Chaska, MN (DWI) – The infamous mythical creature called Chupacabra is no longer a myth. Experts from several agencies have now positively identified a small creature living in the home of a local family as a rare specimen of Chupacabra fantasticalius.

Dubbed ‘Annabelle’ by the unsuspecting family, the animal looks, for all practical purposes, like an 8-pound housecat. However, when a news video reporting the discovery of a dead Chupacabra recently ran on the web, family members were shocked to see a marked resemblance between the videotaped doglike creature and the animal they had taken into their home as the family pet ten years ago.

“I was stunned,” ...more...