September 26, 2018 0 Hawaii’s Spam Scam Spam, pictured above, is food… well, nominally speaking. It was invented in 1937, per Wikipedia, in an [...]
September 24, 2018 0 Barbie’s Secret Former Life as a, uh, Party Girl You know what the Barbie doll is — they’re everywhere and have been there for a long time. [...]
September 21, 2018 0 The Weekender, September 21, 2018 1) “Leave no dark corner ” (ABC News Australia, 7 minutes, September 2018). The subhead: [...]
September 20, 2018 0 When Flying First Class Isn’t Good Enough General Electric is a multinational conglomerate which operates in many different categories, manufacturing [...]
September 18, 2018 0 Why the Big Bad Wolf Wouldn’t be a Good Baseball Player If you’re not a baseball fan, you’ve almost certainly not heard of Lenny Randle. And if you are a [...]
September 17, 2018 0 Why You Shouldn’t Fart on a West Virginia Police Officer In the iconic movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, King Arthur and his coconut-clopping compatriarts make [...]
September 13, 2018 0 The First Digital Camera (That Wasn’t) Chances are, you’re reading this on a camera. That’s a very odd sentence but in a sense, it’s probably [...]
September 12, 2018 0 Los Angeles’ One Waze Street A few months ago, the greater Los Angeles area received a dubious honor — for the sixth consecutive [...]
September 7, 2018 0 The Weekender, September 7, 2018 1) “The Big Squeeze” (Aeon, 10 minutes). The title in the HTML tag is better — “How a [...]
September 6, 2018 0 Who Kept the Dogs Out Imagine, for sake of discussion about something totally unrelated, a fence which stretched, end to end, [...]