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December 13th, 2019 | Main

Who Signed Off On This?

The “Peloton wife” commercial brouhaha has been entertaining.  I imagine a room filled with ad execs brainstorming ideas to bring in new customers, but instead, they got universal scorn.  However, there are plenty of worse ...

December 6th, 2019 | Main

Friday Musing

Benjamin Schreiber Aman of Iowa, who was serving a life sentence for murder, claimed his sentence was fulfilled during his short-lived death after he was rushed from the Iowa State Penitentiary in 2015 to the hospital and his heart was ...

October 18th, 2019 | Main

Hot Stuff

I recently read that scientists in Germany have created small zeolite pellets that can store up to four times more heat than water, loss-free, for “lengthy periods of time.” Interesting, but there’s a much cheaper material that does ...

September 25th, 2019 | Main

Hell Bent

According to its website, Hell, Michigan is “surrounded by 400 acres of beautiful campgrounds, biking and hiking trails, a chain of lakes and channels, recreational areas for picnics, and so much more.” That’s not the description I heard ...

September 6th, 2019 | Main

Time to Evacuate

I don’t like how big storms are named.  “Edna Set to Arrive in Charleston on Saturday” sounds like a visit from a kindly old aunt. Old aunts can be scary, but storms are worse. They need to have names that encourage the public to take them ...