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Eric Pfeiffer
September 30, 2024
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Nothing says I love you quite like "don't put the ornaments in stupid places."
There comes a point in every long term relationship when the romance doesn’t necessarily wane, per se, but certainly shifts. There's just a certain comfortability that comes from living together, raising a family together, going through life’s many ups and downs together, that absolutely destroys whatever filter we previously had while dating.
And that’s not a bad thing! Not only can it lead to plenty of laughs, but a whole new relationship layer to appreciate.
He's still got it.
Once upon a time, Dana Carvey was practically synonymous with Saturday Night Live, a fixture of the show not only for his iconic original characters like Garth Algar and Grumpy Old Man, but his dead-on, uncanny and laugh-out-loud funny impressions. Not least of which being his incredible George H.W. Bush during the 1992 election.
In an epic return to SNL, Carvey proved he’s still got it in his portrayal of Joe Biden.
Life has improved drastically in countless ways.
As people age, they long for the “good ol’ days,” when allegedly people worked harder, the world was safer, and everyone was kind and prosperous. However, the notion that somehow life in America was so much better in the past is more of a psychological trick than reality.
The idea that everything was better in the past, whether that means the ‘90s, ‘70s, or ‘50s, is the product of a cognitive bias known by psychologists as rosy retrospection. “It happens because when we think about the past, we are more likely to think about people, events, places, and things in the abstract,” Mark Travers, Ph.D., writes in Psychology Today. “And, when we think about things in the abstract, we are more likely to focus on positive generalities than the nitty-gritty and sometimes gory details.”
She was about to drown in her car.
In the 5 days since Hurricane Helene made landfall on the southeastern coast of the U.S., over 120 people have died from the tremendous winds and flooding. Although the devastation has been tragic, there have also been beautiful acts of heroism to give us all a glimmer of hope in the wake of destruction.
On Friday, September 27, FOX Weather Meteorologist Bob Van Dillen was broadcasting from Peach Tree Creek in Atlanta, Georgia. He and his crew heard a woman screaming while doing a live TV set up in the pre-dawn hours. She had driven into a flooded area and her car was rapidly filling with water.