February 8, 2022 0 The Pearly History Behind Chinese Takeout Boxes Pictured above is a generic Chinese food takeout box. Inside you’ll find lo mein, fried rice, chop [...]
February 7, 2022 0 The Boo Racket If you’re a fan of sitcoms — and in particular, those from before 2010 or so — you’re [...]
February 4, 2022 0 There’s No Such Thing as “Plaimfilled” Hi! As long-time readers know, on Fridays — like, you know, today — I do a week-in-review type of [...]
February 3, 2022 0 A Different Type of Presidential Mudslinging Martin Van Buren served one term as President of the United States, occupying the White House from 1837 until [...]
February 1, 2022 0 The Loch Ness Moose-ster? If you spend a lot of time hiking through the forests of the United States and Canada — and in [...]
January 31, 2022 0 The Loopy Way to Show One’s Affection Pictured above is the back of a men’s dress shirt — or, at least, the top part of it (but below [...]
January 28, 2022 0 The Great Quicksand Gap of 1986 or So Hi! Welcome to another Friday, and with it, another Now I Know Weekender, where I do a quick review of [...]
January 27, 2022 0 The Very Long Novel That Saved a Man’s Sanity For decades, Somalia has been a center for political turmoil. That was particularly true in the Somaliland [...]
January 25, 2022 0 The Green Vines Grow All Around The Shengsi Islands are an archipelago of a few hundred dots of land off the coast of mainland China. [...]
January 24, 2022 0 The Origins of the Football Huddle Over the weekend, American football fans were treated to an exceptional set of games, all of which came down [...]