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Standard Deviations: A few ghost stories among Facebook friends

People to invite to your Halloween party: Doctors, lawyers, teachers, bus drivers, retail sales associates, construction workers, food-service employees, accountants, stay-at-home parents, homeless people, unemployed dolphin trainers, Donald Trump, just about anyone else on the planet.People ...

Standard Deviations: Stop the presses! Get your very own press equipment

OGDEN — Hey, faithful newspaper readers! Sick and tired of the “lamestream” media? Think you could do a better job of:• Reporting on elections?• Covering your favorite sports teams?• Producing these twice-weekly columns?Or maybe you’ve just always wanted to be able to shout ...

Standard Deviations: Clowns gripping the country in panic

I’ve never understood this irrational fear of clowns.America is currently in the grip of a full-fledged clown panic, and I’m struggling to comprehend it all.Clowns have never seemed scary or evil or even slightly unhinged to me. They just seem sad. And a bit off-putting. Maybe even a little ...

Standard Deviations: There’s just no crawling under our winter inversions

Whenever something would go south in our family, my father had an old line he liked to use.“Well, you know what they say,” he’d intone with a sad smile. “The rich get richer, and the poor get pregnant.”Ah, but as it turns out, that’s not all the poor get. Apparently, they also get ...

Standard Deviations: Time to talk about the elephant and donkey in the room

It’s time to talk about the elephant in the room.And, the donkey.With the presidential election just a month away, we need to have a frank discussion about the current state of U.S. politics. You know how they say that the two things you should never talk about in polite society are politics ...