California Post headline: “Professor travels with an emotional support chicken: ‘She can understand my emotions.’” (2/21/26)
Canadian psychology professor Sonia Kong travels everywhere with her 11-month-old therapy chicken, named Saturday, who always wears a specially designed diaper.
This relationship is impressive because:
On March 3, 1933, Mount Rushmore National Memorial was dedicated to honor four of America’s greatest Presidents. Now the current President expressed his strong desire to be included among the monumental leaders carved into Mount Rushmore.
In a related story:
Inspired by Rosa Parks’ 1955 refusal to give up her Birmingham, Alabama bus seat to a white person, and the yearlong bus boycott that followed, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., which ultimately integrated the Birmingham buses, I knew I had to do something meaningful as well.
Now, before you read any further, please consider sometimes my aspirations fall far short of the greatness of others.
Today in history, January 16, 27 BC, The Roman Senate declared Augustus Caeser, the adopted son of Julius Caeser, the first Roman Emperor.
His first official act, for "strategic reasons," was to try to seize Greenland. Unfortunately, Augustus Caeser could not find Greenland on a map, and the attack was shelved for over 2,000 years.
California has begun issuing new driver's licenses with beautiful images of redwoods, poppies, and the coastline and incorporates enhanced security elements like a digital security signature. Name and birth date are stored in the barcode.
And while I have yet to verify this, rumor has it that new California licenses will soon have 3 other features:
