So those of you who know me know that I am all for high gas prices. Yes you read that right, HIGH GAS PRICES, see I said it again. Why? Am I nuts? Well since I was lobbying earlier for a $1 a gallon gas tax (on the coat tail of an article by Thomas [...]
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President Bush has recently been making a lot of dumb statements, some are about his sacrifice of giving up the sport of golf to show solidarity with our troops who are fighting and dying overseas (see story), another unfortunate statement he made was in front of the Knesset in Israel comparing Obama’s pledge (not by [...]
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Chicago has by the same large margin that they instituted a foie gras ban, repealed their ban on the sale of fois gras, something that many, including myself thought was pretty ludicrous. Why ban foie gras? well some would argue (and do) that its inhumane, but if Chicago really cares about animals they’d probably be [...]
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How often does one get to see something that has only happened 14 times in the last 100 years? Well if your a baseball fan yesterday was just such an opportunity in the second game of the Indians double-header with the Blue Jays (how often do you see double headers? this one was only due [...]
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Many of us know that we are influenced by labels, hype, presentation and apparently with wine that holds true as well. Came across an interesting article in NY Times (discussing a book / study on the subject) yesterday on wine tastes and the influence that price and labels have over how we percieve the tast. [...]
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So while a few of us have celebrated Cinco de Mayo from time to time, maybe had the occasional Margarita and some tacos? Many of us forget what the holiday is anyway, probably most people would guess that it is Mexican independence, it is not, but since I couldn’t remember what it was (aside from [...]
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In game six of the Wizards v. Cavaliers first round playoff game some Washington Wizards fan’s came equipped with ‘Crybaby 23′ t-shirts, directed at LeBron James who had been fouled hard throughout the series and who Wizards fans was soft. Cleveland and LeBron got the last laugh winning the third straight playoff series between the [...]
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Last night I went and saw a ‘one night only’ showing via satellite of the This American Life stage show being beamed from a New York auditorium to satellite equipped movie theaters around the country. (see story about the event here) The turn out in Columbus was pretty small – although apparently some locations sold out. The [...]
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