Editorial

If you’re part of a non-profit organization that could use a new car, Toyota wants to help. It’s doing a car giveaway, and all you have to do to win is harness the power of social media.

A man whose sister was killed by another motorist says that during the ensuing court battle, his sister’s insurance company — Progressive — actually defended the at-fault driver. And after taking his complaints public, the case is getting a lot of attention.

All that fresh mountain air must be a very good thing, because according to a new report from the CDC, Colorado has once again ranked as the thinnest state in the nation.

Most of us have had shopping experiences at major sales events that would have been emotionally easier to handle with a steady Thorazine drip being administered in a padded room somewhere underneath the mall.

Being denied credit is never fun, and for one 99-year-old woman, it was especially disheartening. She was turned down for a store credit card because of her age — but as it turns out, it was all a big misunderstanding.

There is little more brutal in a free society than football practice in August. The Tigers of the University of Missouri were going through that horror show when, on the horizon, appeared two coeds, tan and lithe. The shapely ladies were running the steps of Faurot Field. Or were they just visions? Pleasant thoughts that dance about the brain right before it shuts down with heat stroke?

For teenagers, a popular rite of passage is going up to a buddy’s summer cabin and seeing how much beer they can drink. Apparently bears like to do this too, as a Norwegian family learned the hard way.

At first glance, it looks like nothing interesting. Just a parking lot filled with dirty old cars that shiould probably head to a junkyard. But look closer…closer… okay, enough! See it? Looks like Dracula is getting lazy. That, or perhaps he’s just sick and tired of murdering people… in which case good for you dude!

Summertime, and the living is easy… or is that cheesy? When picking out the perfect summer accessories on Etsy, that online emporium of all things craft-tastic (and occasionally crap-tastic), sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference.

The two-and-a-half-month summer vacation that kids get was a mid-19th century compromise between rural school districts, which had children who needed to help out on the family farm, and urban districts, which often dealt with extreme heat in the summer.

Reality television isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. As much as we hate to admit it we’re addicted to this genre of television. We love the fights. We can’t wait to see the stupidity,and we cheer every time a cast member gets embarrassingly drunk.

The cast of ‘Jersey Shore’ aside, there’s pretty much only one kind of human being these days — but according to a new scientific discovery, it may not have always been that way.