The NCAA Tournament will just be getting under way as this article is published. Next to bowl games in January, the next few days of basketball will be the most watched in college sports in the country. March Madness is a big deal in this country. Basketball is a big deal. For many schools their [...]

The financial crisis left a sour taste in our mouths for bankers. The term “banksters” became popular again. Executives got a bad reputation again thanks to bailouts, bonuses, and boneheadedness. The public is even coming around to the idea that politicians played a part in causing the crisis, but of course we already hated them. [...]

Have you ever been to an Olive Garden on a Saturday night? It’s one of the worst places to be. There are wayyyyyy too many people.  That’s coming from an Olive Garden fan. Lines can be as long as an hour, and sometimes someone in your party is willing to wait that long for free [...]

Back in February Anna Gristina, a hockey-mom that rescues pigs and lives in Connecticut, was arrested for allegedly running a high-end prostitution ring in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Since Eliot Spitzer’s fall from grace in 2008 due to his time spent with some high-end hookers the American public has come to understand this is just [...]

Americans love their meat. Along with countries like Australia and Spain we consume the most meat per person in the world. Before the recession hit we were eating almost 190 pounds of meat per person. That’s more than half a pound of meat per day. Today is Friday and the last time I had meat [...]

Making decisions can be an easy thing. There’s no point to wasting time trying to make decisions. You’ll never have all the information to make a perfect decision and sometimes you have to make the best one you can. Recently, The Sheconomist and I were shopping for patio furniture. We wanted something that could seat [...]

There’s a lot of talk out there about the vanishing middle class.  The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class is slowly eroding away.  No end seems to be in sight either so the problem may continue to get worse.  Most of the talk seems to be complaining, but that tells [...]

American Idol has been a very popular show for quite a long time. The Sheconomist is a regular viewer and so I’ve seen many many episodes of the show. This week was the first time in the season in which the viewers can vote on the contestants they’d like to keep on the show. If [...]