Category Archives: Random News

Al Dugan is doing a New Years show in honor of Jerry & Norma on Friday, December 30th, at 9am. He interviewed David and me for the show (and David did one of the station ID announcements). In addition to … Continue reading →

Insomnia, so what better time to repost something and break my silence? Last night on “60 Minutes” (HT IndianaJim) President Obama said to interviewer Steve Croft about tax cuts: Steve, the math is the math. You can’t lower rates and … Continue reading →

This has got to stop. By David Rittgers Department of Education officers employed a SWAT team because of unpaid student loans. I am not making this up: Kenneth Wright does not have a criminal record and he had no reason … Continue reading →

also, “the road to Hell is paved with good intentions”: But in the 21 states that were fully affected [by the federal increase in the minimum wage in 2007], about 13,200 black young adults lost their job as a direct … Continue reading →

from Russ Roberts at Cafe Hayek: Here is an updated version of Case-Shiller’s housing index for the country. (The source for the updating and the image is The Big Picture and TBP reader Steve Barry.) It is of course somewhat … Continue reading →

This was when he was only 90, during my wandersommer of 2001: Leopold Hawelka, founder of famous Austrian cafe, turns 100 amid much fanfare – The Washington Post]

If I were to listen to sports radio, I would have to listen to Sean Pendergast, if only for the post that had this video: [From The Most Illegal Wrestling Move of All Time!! (with VIDEO) – Houston News – … Continue reading →

Thank you, Improbable Research: If you struggle to remember which direction is clockwise, and which is counterclockwise, here is another instructive example. Seen from your vantage point, the puppies in this video are rotating in the COUNTERCLOCKWISE direction: (Thanks to … Continue reading →

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