A Fargo, North Dakota bank decided to help their employees out this Christmas season by facilitating a false sense of “giving”.  They handed each of their employees $1000 or $500, depending on full or part-time status, and told them that they had to give the money to a charity.  They even hired an Oprah impersonator […]

A great presentation on the impact of immigration (especially the illegal kind) in the United States…  It’s very sobering!

Hats of to Owen over at Boots and Sabers, who stood up for First Amendment rights of all Wisconsinites in a press statement regarding the arrest of teacher, James Buss:

“I believe in robust speech, robust debate, and I think that if we start going around arresting people because they engage in poorly thought out parody […]

I just found this Massachusetts government website that contains a court document that mentions Leeland Eisenberg - the hostage-taker at the Clinton campaign headquarters - and his involvement as a third party in a case while he was in prison.  (Many sources have already discovered that Mr. Eisenberg did prison time.)

If you’re interested in seeing where the US falls in just about any category, check Nationmaster out.  It’s full of all sorts of fun data that you can gather all kinds of conclusions from.
I found out that the USA’s percentage of people below the poverty line (per capita) is at 0.04 % per […]

I suppose abstinence education is still out of the question?
According to a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) annual report on the national trends of three notifiable sexually transmitted diseases (STDs): chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis; the rate of reported infections continues to rise, and as before, it is likely the official data represents […]

How many times have you been shopping, on a trip, or vacuuming your carpets, when you thought, “Gee, it really would be nice if I could carry around a tube of yummy, gelatin-ized vodka and partake of it whenever the urge strikes.”?
Well, you don’t have to wait any longer.  (At least, not if you live […]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone go through so much trouble to make a Halloween costume.  Pretty ingenious! (Turn down your speakers if you’re at work, you time-waster, you.)