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 ...