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Monthly Archives: July 2007

People Who Watch Fox News Know 20% Less Than Most Other People

Here is a really scary statistic: In a recent poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, people who watch Fox News know less than people who watch Jon Stewart.
As the graph below depicts, only 38% of people who watch Fox News could name Vladimir Putin as the President of the [...]

Italian TV Commercial

Gosh, I love the Italians! What a superlative sense of humor.

Chocolate – It’s Not Only Good, It’s Good For YOU!

Chocolate has been maligned for years as a bad thing. Those days are over and it’s time that chocolate finally takes it’s place among the other natural life enhancing foods like fish and apples!
From the New York Times, a trusted source since 1851:

Hint of Chocolate Holds a Reward
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 4, 2007
CHICAGO, July [...]

Space Shuttle Piggy-Backs Across The US

After a successful landing at Edwards Air Force Base on June 22nd, the Space Shuttle Atlantis was loaded onto a specially modified 747 for it’s trip home to Florida. The Shuttle program has identified a number of alternate landing sites for the shuttle, some of which are contingent on something going wrong with the [...]

Out of Town Guests

We’ve got some guests from out of town. What that mens is that my normally sporadic posting schedule will only get worse. I hope to be able to get two or three posts a day, but we’ll see.