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PENNSYLVANIA SENATE
PASSES RESTROOM
EQUALITY RESOLUTION
By LARRY CENTOR
HARRISBURG, Pa. – The Pennsylvania Senate has passed a resolution calling for equal restroom facilities for heterogeneous and homogeneous individuals along the state’s toll roads.
By a 33 to 14 vote, with two abstentions, the Senate passed the Restroom Equal Access Measure, or REAM as it usually referenced. “We feel it’s [...]

The youngsters found him washed up on the beach, unconscious and breathing heavily, long hair splayed across his sharp features. They ran home to tell their parents, and a short while later two middle-aged men arrived with a two-wheeled cart drawn by a tired ox.
By then, the man was on his back, arms thrown wide [...]

God, in his wispy self, was relaxing in the chair at the head of the large oval table. Overhead, the ceiling was a limitless clear blue sky. Beneath, the floor was a limitless clear blue sky. The occasion was an extraordinary meeting of God and his Celestial Editorial Board. It was extraordinary because it was [...]

Two of the three urinals had not been flushed. Naturally, I used the third, which happened to be on the left – and flushed. Then, acting from some sort of temporary compulsive neurotic disorder, I flushed the other two, something I would not normally do.
Which got me to wondering.
Who had used those other two urinals? [...]

The pitcher nodded at his catcher’s signal, glanced at the wisp of smoke that was the leadoff batter, and went into his windup. The ball hurtled straight at the batter, who sucked in some wisp, then bent in toward the plate.
“Strike one!” said the umpire, pumping his right fist for emphasis.
The wisp whirled around and [...]