Category Archives: Blog stuff

Why loosen your belt on Thanksgiving? Just go belt-free! Nice to know that speed bumps could be good for something. Go ahead and move your money to a credit union or smaller bank. Businesses love complex regulations, because “complexity” = … Continue reading →

Still hoping to enjoy a little Thanksgiving before it gets completely crowded out by Christmas… When you see a headline like Dachsund on LSD hit by car, naked couple arrested, is there really any need to read the story? Being … Continue reading →

Have you voted yet? Well, nobody truly understands the Scots, anyway. I want to see these punctuation marks on my next keyboard. And I want Victor Borge to come up with sounds for them. The making of the Statue of … Continue reading →

Boo! Happy penultimate day before Dia de los Muertos, Charlie Brown! When frozen armadillos are outlawed, only outlaws will have frozen armadillos. The secret of success for symphony orchestras is to figure out who their audience really is. Good for … Continue reading →

Happy Mole Day, everyone! Assuming we weren’t all raptured, of course. I would like for this to be incorporated into the standard written driver’s test. I also think Rude Taco would make an excellent band name. If this doesn’t convince … Continue reading →

Twelve years and 364 days ago was the best day I’d had in my life. The Amish crime beat is a strange place. From the Everything You Know Is Wrong, Iconic Scientific Images department. I don’t know about you, but … Continue reading →

Only 22 shopping days till Halloween. Why the Kindle Fire tablet is priced so low. The concept of “civil discourse” is meaningless without context. The alarm clock some of us have and the rest of us need. Now this is … Continue reading →

Am I the only one thinking “There’s more than a year to go and I’m already sick of the Presidential race”? Zombies are like a metaphor, with more brain-eating. Why do Americans like ice cubes so much? Fast food workers, … Continue reading →

Happy Day Before International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Sneakerware will never truly go out of style. (See here or here for the definition if it’s unclear to you.) Apparently, having an aol.com email address is now considered a status … Continue reading →

What my dad wrote ten years ago about our family’s connection to NYFD. “So where should you go if you want to avoid pricey weather catastrophes? Oddly enough, Alaska or Hawaii.” The Monsters of Grok. I want the Niels Bohr … Continue reading →

Are you ready for some college football? Meet new Apple CEO Tim Cook, the most powerful gay man in the world. The Five Guys story, which is making me hungry. Don’t annoy a federal judge, especially one with a finely … Continue reading →

Homework? Already? Actually, not till next week for us. But it’s out there, waiting… “Groupon’s fundamental problem is that it has not yet discovered a viable business model.” The haters’ guide to the college football Top 25. Not for the … Continue reading →

School starts tomorrow. That sound you hear is one part kids wailing and one part parents rejoicing. How to expose a fake video, if you’re a physicist. I have to agree that if deer antler spray doesn’t help you grow … Continue reading →

The game theory case for caving on the debt ceiling. And what it all means for 2012. You had me at “glow in the dark shark”. The invisibility part was just gravy. The rise of the ape movies. “I like … Continue reading →

Congressional Republicans love dirty fuels more than they claim to revere the military. It’s easier to negotiate with North Korea these days than it is with Congressional Republicans. I want this woman to be my lawyer. Great, now I have … Continue reading →

Hot. Hot hot hot. We probably won’t see Hope Solo in MLS any time soon. Circle fatigue. That didn’t take long. Leisure diving. Because, sure, why not? The food desert problem is more complicated than just a lack of grocery … Continue reading →