April 5, 2013 0 Green Potato Chips Every once in a while — less often than a few years ago — you’ll open a bag [...]
April 4, 2013 0 Man Not Overboard The apex of chivalry — at least, in some sort of romanticized sense — occurs on a [...]
April 3, 2013 0 Koreikashakai Prisoners If one were to rank nations by their incarceration rates, the United States would easily top that list with [...]
April 2, 2013 0 Issei Sagawa Issei Sagawa’s Wikipedia entry lists his occupation as a “public speaker, [...]
April 1, 2013 0 Royal Brew At the close of the 1977 Major League Baseball season, the Kansas City Royals sat atop their division with [...]
March 29, 2013 0 Razzle Dazzle If you look up the term “camouflage,” you’ll almost certainly find a definition dealing [...]
March 28, 2013 0 Beard Dough Peter the Great was the tzar of Russia from 1682 until his death in 1725. During that period, Europe was [...]
March 25, 2013 0 Do You See What I See? The image above — yes, an arrow — is actually, in this case, an optical illusion. In 1889, German [...]
March 22, 2013 0 The Pink-ish Scarlet Kitty Hello Kitty, above, was created by the Japanese company Sanrio in 1974. She’s become an [...]
March 21, 2013 0 Time Travel At the time of this writing, it is 9:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time in New York City. It’s [...]