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Pastafarians Unite!

by Madeleine Kando In Austria a man by the name of Nico Alm was granted a driver's license with a pasta strainer on his head in his lice...

Some Random Thoughts on Happiness

by Madeleine Kando When someone asks me 'Are you happy?', I never know what to say. It puts me on the defensive. It's like havin...

Playing With Words

By Tom Kando To be human is, above all, to name things. Other things have been mentioned as our defining feature - the opposing thumb, our l...

How to entertain - and not entertain - foreign guests

by Tom Kando and Anita Kando As European-Americans, we have hosted European visitors to America innumerable times, and we have also been ho...

The History of Food Revealed

by Madeleine Kando A 1999 BBC series on the origins of pornography inspired me to write a spoof. Rather than take sex as the subject howeve...

Tom Tom

By Tom Kando I just spent a month in Europe, mostly visiting my 98-year old mother who lives an hour North of Amsterdam, and helping her wit...