M&Ms: Melts in Your Mouth and Also In Your Hands After Refrigeration
M&Ms gained popularity in 1941 with its widespread dissemination amongst American troops by the U.S. Army. They were distributed due to their unique ability to withstand the heat and conditions of the average battlefield without melting like other chocolate-based candies. Hence the promotion “melts in your mouth, not in your hand.”
Well I […]
Best Fast Food Chain: Rush’s
If you don’t live in mid-state South Carolina, I pity you. You are missing out on the greatest fast-food chain ever created. Rush’s is a model of perfection in an otherwise pretty lousy market. If there are any managers or entrepreneurs out there that are wondering how to make a fast food […]
Look Out, Iran Has a Jet-Propelled Fighting Aeroplane!
The latest news coming out of Iran is that they have developed their very own jet fighter. I think if we’re going to Gulf-of-Tonkin ourselves into a war with Iran, we ought to know what we’re getting ourselves into.
OK, OK, so the picture above doesn’t accurately depict their new design. This is what […]
Time to Find a New Country?
How many times have you heard celebrities whine about moving to another country if such-and-such gets elected? (Barbara Streisand, Alec Baldwin, Rosie O’Donnell, et al). Even I wonder what it would be like to purchase a small island and set up a minimalist form of government (probably just borrow the same Constitution we […]
Congress Taxes Oil and Gives It To Renewables
Thomas Nast’s cartoon depicting Boss Tweed and the Tammany Ring
You know what? I give up.
Declaring a new direction in energy policy, the House on Saturday approved $16 billion in taxes on oil companies, while providing billions of dollars in tax breaks and incentives for renewable energy and conservation efforts.[cite]
It should be patently obvious that […]