Daylight Saving Time
Let’s be honest, Daylight Saving Time blows. The reasons for it always seem loose, “it’s for the farmers” “it’s so kids can go to school in daylight” “it’s so you can light your Christmas decorations earlier” blah, blah, blah. And I’m not as dumb as I look because new research backs me up. The annual […]
November 8th, 2019A Herd Of Elephants Gathers Around A Watering Hole
I was watching BBC America the other night and they were doing a feature on some animal populated area in the African wilderness. The cinematography was amazing, how they capture these animals in their natural habitat is quite impressive. The scene was a herd of elephants gathered around a watering hole. The pachyderms lingered around […]
October 27th, 2019The Economics of Toilet Paper
You no doubt have noticed over the past few years that companies have figured out a way to maximize their profits while pretending they haven’t passed any cost increases onto the consumer. They have done this by shrinking the size of their products but charging the same amount of money they did when the products […]
October 17th, 2019What’s In A Name?
The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago is now the Kenneth C. Griffin Museum of Science and Industry because Ken dropped 125 million on the institution. Years ago I said the city of Chicago should sell the naming rights to everything it owns because at that time it was only 300 million in debt, […]
October 4th, 2019$9 million an hour
Let’s have some fun! Listener Buzz sent me this story concerning the richest man in the world Jeff Bezos. Now the story doesn’t just give his one big number net worth, no, this piece breaks down his money to the second. Please keep in mind that these figures were calculated using Jeff’s 2017 and 2018 […]
September 23rd, 2019
