These stories will make you laugh or cry… or both!

OK folks, if you want to take your mind off Hurricane Milton, the Ukraine/Russia war, the Middle East conflict and the upcoming election–you’ve come to the right place!

Check out some of these recent stories and feel free to laugh, cry, or anywhere in the vast in-between:

1. The Los Angeles Housing Department, in charge of mediating disputes between tenants and landlords…was recently evicted from its offices by its landlord.

2. Experts have said there is a strong chance a long-lost species, such as wooly mammoths, the dodo bird and the Tasmanian tiger, could be brought back from the dead before 2028 – with the help of Paris Hilton and Chris Hemsworth.

Bet that was a headline you thought you would never see!

Hilton, Hemsworth and fitness guru Tony Hawk are among the celebrities investing in this gene copying/clone science via the company Colossal Biosciences.

In simple terms, the science behind the mission involves working out the “core” genes that make an extinct animal what it is, and then replicating those genes using the DNA of a close existing relative. But you already knew that, right?

In even simpler terms?  The Dodo bird could be coming back!

3. A middle school teacher in Kentucky hid his winning lottery ticket in one of the math books in his classroom.  He was quoted as saying, “It was safe there, no one ever looks inside a math book.”

4. NBA basketball player Paul George was offered $60 million for two years to play for the Los Angeles Clippers. He turned it down, saying “The team was disrespecting me with that offer.”

5. A robot recently circled and circled the office where it was assigned, apparently getting more and more agitated as it went, and then eventually threw itself out the window, in what was thought to be the first recorded case of a robot committing suicide.

6. The wonderful Gen X generation has adapted to the working at home scheme by inventing a computer mouse that can be programmed to keep circling on the mousepad even when you are not in the room, thus making the boss and the rest of the office think you are “working.”

7. An Arts section of a local newspaper just had its feature front-page headline read, "Tips to make your candles last longer.”  Slow news day?  Or just running out of topics?

8. A seat cushion company advertises that “This is the seat cushion that could save your life!” (Insert your own punch line here.)

9. Pinky Friedman ran for governor of Texas, with his primary motto “How hard can it be?” Among his position statements were “Gays absolutely should be able to be married—they should have to suffer like the rest of us.” He also promised to bring the speed limit for cars on local roads down from 50 mph to 49.5 mph.

I never met this guy, but I love him already and he has my vote!

10. Maybe along with bringing back extinct animals such as the wooly mammoth, the Dodo bird, and the Tasmanian tiger, they could find a way to clone and bring back to life Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones.

Oh wait, he is still alive…isn’t he?