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May 19, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

ROYAL WEDDING – Best wishes to Prince Harry and Angela Merkel on their royal wedding from everyone at The Daily Chrenk (i.e. me)

Happiness / Life

May 17, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

GO AND MARRY YOURSELF – People can do whatever they want with their money and their dignity, but it strikes me as sad: An Italian woman has married herself in …

Life

May 15, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

ANGELS HAVE VERY SMALL HEADS – Are photos taken by a motion sensor-activated camera in East Jordan, Michigan, of an angel, a moth, an illusion – or maybe the Mothman? You …

Life

May 10, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WELCOME TO THE POLISH HERSHEY HIGHWAY – There is no use crying over spilled chocolate. This is what it looks like when a truck hauling 12 tons of chocolate flips …

Happiness / Life / Politics

April 28, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

GOD AND MAN (AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMALS) AT YALE – If you walked into the Grace Hopper College courtyard last year, you may have seen a cat on a leash. …

Life

ANZAC Day repost: Dreams from my Grandfather at the Bridge Too Far

April 25, 2018April 25, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Note: I have originally published this long post a year and a half ago, and since then it has become one of my and my readers’ favourite TDC stories. Today …

Happiness / Life

April 18, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

INDIAN DATER FROM INDIANAPOLIS – Are unsuccessful dates refundable? A woman has shared her horror online after being mailed an invoice for her half of a dinner date after she …

Life

April 17, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

KOALAS GO WILD ON BRISBANE TINDER – This is more than a koala can bear: Australia’s iconic koala has a problem that keeps boomeranging back. Chlamydia, a type of sexually transmitted disease …

Happiness / Life

April 16, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

PRIVATE SCHOOL DATING – When you use your old school tie to tie up your girlfriend to a bed: The world’s first dating app for the privately-educated has launched — …

Life / Politics

April 8, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

MILLENNIALS MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND – Most of them, in any case: A new survey has found that a third of young millennials in the U.S. aren’t convinced the …

Life

April 2, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO – This is the technological equivalent of a restaurateur who never eats at his own venue: Koduri and Shahi represent a new …

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Culture / Life / Politics

What colour is your Jesus?

March 30, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It’s that time of the year again (Christmas or Easter) for someone out there to come out and say something provocative about Jesus in order to get the maximum media …

Life

March 30, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

PEOPLE ARE SICK, BUT THEN WHAT’S NEW? – This is in fact a pretty old and well-known phenomenon, but every time it pops up again I’m not any closer to …

Life

March 12, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

SHOULD UNHAPPY GRADUATES BE ABLE TO SUE UNIVERSITIES – This story, surprisingly, doesn’t involve the Bachelor of Feminist Interpretative Dance: Pok Wong, who also goes by the name Fiona Pok, …

Life / Politics

March 10, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

PLEASE AUSTRALIA, BE MORE LIKE HOUSTON – Some staggering figures that go towards explaining housing unaffordability in Australia: Everybody complains about high housing prices these days. But would you live …

Multicultural group of friends using cellphones - Students sitting in a row and typing on the smartphones

Life / Politics

Should 16-year olds vote?

February 22, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The American media and the progressives (but I’m repeating myself) are jumping on the “let’s lower the voting age” bandwagon in the aftermath of the Parkland school massacre, having found among the …

Life / Politics

February 13, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THOSE ZANY ICELANDERS – Iceland’s major new industry is mining. Bitcoin mining: Iceland is expected to use more energy “mining” bitcoins and other virtual currencies this year than it uses …

Life

February 10, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

RIP ROSIE THE RIVETER – It was a few weeks ago, but bears remembering: Unsung for seven decades, the real Rosie the Riveter was a California waitress named Naomi Parker …

Life

January 24, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

YOU GUYS WANT IT BACK? Rocks recently discovered in Australia bear striking similarities to those found in North America, a study finds. The sandstone sedimentary rocks the scientists uncovered are not …

Life / Politics

January 22, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

TWENTY-FOUR YEAR OLD ADOLESCENTS – The “man-child” thing is becoming real: Young people continuing their education for longer, as well as delayed marriage and parenthood, has redefined common perceptions of …