2014-06-18 13:05
20 years ago. Wow. I wrote HERE five years ago about my tangential personal connection to the OJ case. A lot has been made over the last week, because of the 20th anniversary tod… Read More
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2014-05-21 13:12
Today is apparently the anniversary of something bicycle-related, I read just now. I was surprised to learn HERE that, for the first 50 years after it was invented in 1817, it came to be kno… Read More
2014-05-18 13:10
"They spend hours a day entering sweepstakes..."(While the applicable taxes on any winnings are mentioned in this NBC Nightly News segment from last night, the fact that they would total hun… Read More
2014-05-17 12:29
"Sitting around the house—secret audio recordings would later show—the two often talked about Chinese politics, remarking that Mao, like Stalin, was misunderstood by history. T… Read More
2014-05-16 23:11
The purchaser, Golden Gate Capital, also owns Payless Shoe Source and Zales. So when this sale closes in a few months, Red Lobster will be right where it belongs. Among friends. "After tax a… Read More
2014-05-16 23:11
"When moral dilemmas are posed in a foreign language, people become more coolly utilitarian." So begins THIS Economist article that goes on to explain, "Specifically, when people are asked t… Read More
2014-05-16 22:57
"As farmers work to plant the fields of Iowa this week, the FBI still lists five Chinese nationals as ‘wanted’ for stealing seed corn over the past three years... Mo is accused… Read More
2014-05-16 22:14
It's a question fraught with peril, perhaps, answered HERE as follows, "daily showering is actually not objectively healthier or better; and in fact, one of the most common reasons that pe… Read More
2014-05-14 16:02
With the space shuttle fleet retired from service, the United States currently pays Russia more than $65 million apiece to fly American astronauts to the International Space Station, accordi… Read More
2014-05-14 13:05
I was surprised to read yesterday that, after the American Civil War ended in 1865, Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy, lived another 25 years. He spent only two years in pris… Read More
2014-05-14 12:42
"When abstainers are excluded the national averages look extremely different," reads THIS new article in The Economist. "By this measure, it is in Africa, Asia and even the Middle East whe… Read More
2014-05-13 12:57
We're all familiar with the phrase,"the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria." Now comes news that one of those three ships famously on Christopher Columbus' first voyage to The New World, t… Read More
2014-05-12 18:45
I loved the cartoon "Thundarr the Barbarian" (1980-1982) as a kid, and wrote HERE previously about the proposed "Thundarr" toy line that was abandoned when the TV show was cancelled and the… Read More
2014-05-12 17:59
The new "Godzilla" film that will be released later this week got me reflecting on how I became familiar with "Godzilla" as a kid in the 1970s. Of course, the old B&W movies from Japan w… Read More
2014-05-12 17:22
This morning I stumbled on a reference to the fact that, back on this date back in 1978 apparently, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that they woul… Read More
2014-05-10 14:44
This morning I read several references to the upcoming "NRA Show 2014" next weekend, and automatically assumed that referred to the National Rifle Association. But it turns out that th… Read More
2014-05-08 23:59
I'm fascinated by diplomatic euphemisms. "Open defecators" is the newest one to me, a term referring to "pooping in public," a practice which apparently remains stubbornly common in so… Read More
2014-05-08 12:56
The founder of Mother's Day (it's this weekend) later came to loathe it, as I explained a few years ago HERE. She died penniless and alone in an asylum in 1948, at the age of 84. The i… Read More
2014-05-08 12:22
A new Nielsen report reveals that the average American household gets 189 TV channels today, up 45% from the 129 they received in 2008, but that consumers each watch an average of only 17 ch… Read More
2014-05-07 17:13
Last night the US government agency that tracks stolen artwork, dinosaur bones, Egyptian mummies, and other antiquities and valuables trafficked illegally around the world was profiled in th… Read More
2014-05-07 13:14
Does it say anything about the food at HomeTown Buffet ("9.99 for Dinner!") that a developer has applied to transform a defunct one into a funeral home and crematory that serves alcohol?&nbs&hell…Read More
2014-05-07 13:02
"According to the ECB, since the euro was introduced in January 2002, more than half of the six-million-plus fakes withdrawn from circulation (well over 300 million euros worth) can be tra… Read More
2014-05-06 13:32
You've probably seen from time-to-time those odd-looking 'combination' restaurants. The one I've seen most frequently is a combined KFC-Taco Bell (both owned by Yum! Brands). Darden Re… Read More
2014-05-05 16:01
Yesterday was "Star Wars Day" apparently, an occasion that passed me by.When I saw a reference to it online just now, I wondered what significance May 4th has for Star Wars fans. A quick sea… Read More
2014-05-05 13:16
I wrote HERE a few years ago about how Cinco de Mayo is not "Mexican Independence Day" (that's September 16th) but rather a celebration of a short lived, strategically insignificant victory… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I'm typically intrigued by the under-reported epilogues to high profile news stories, and this one is no exception. Yesterday John Edwards apparently showed up uninvited to the funeral… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Like clockwork, Jonathan Pollard is back in the news once again. Every couple of years public speculation (and political pressure from some quarters) mounts to release the imprisoned America… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
An Italian auto worker for Fiat bought a couple of paintings for $100 back in 1975, at an auction of items from a train station's lost and found. He had no idea they were stolen master… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Last December, the parent company of Red Lobster (and Olive Garden, among other chains), Darden Restaurants, which is the largest full-service restaurant company in the world and a Fortun… Read More
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