Category Archives: Signs of the Times
Scrabble Dictionary Adds New Words
Board game stans rejoice, for the adorbs Scrabble dictionary has embiggened the number of playable terms.
This week, the Merriam-Webster dictionary released the seventh edition of its Scrabble Players Dictionary, the official referee on what words are eligible in the popular game, with 500 new words.
In The Yard: An Inflection Point
This was the scene In The Yard last weekend. Soon the temperature began to drop, and by Thursday . . .And In The Yard, after the frost . . .
Where did the flowers go?
Water is Life. When Their Wells Dry Up, Bottled Water Is Life. Then . . .?
Wells are running dry in California at a record pace. Amid a hotter, drier climate and the third consecutive year of severe drought, the state has already tallied a record 1,351 dry wells this year — nearly 40 percent over last year’s rate and the most since the state created its voluntary reporting system in 2014.
Religious Groups Face Off For & Against Senate Same Sex Marriage Bill
The news here is not so much the Senate’s passage of the same sex marriage bill, but the big shift in its denominational support: the switch of the Mormon church (aka LDS) to supporting it, after decades of being a pillar of opposition.