There’s something very interesting going on at the border between North and South Carolina.  Like most states, they have clearly defined borders.  However, unlike many states, they don’t have straight lines or rivers marking that territory in every place.  There are also a lot of people living near the border especially in populated areas like [...]

Let’s be honest. At this point, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have practically no chance to win the primary. They may do more harm than good if the ultimate goal is to put a Republican in the White House. Romney should be campaigning against Obama at this point. So why haven’t they quit yet? On [...]

Yesterday, the blogosphere and Twitterverse got its collective panties in a bunch over a single chart. Obama is a Democrat and those types typically favor more government to less. Conservative pundits paint a picture of a socialist with liberal counterparts might say Obama isn’t going far enough. Conservatives will say Obama is spending too much. [...]

Whatever story you want to tell, you can make a chart that tells it. We see this all the time in politics, but anyone can use a chart to make a point.  Earlier this week Bruce Krasting of Business Insider used the following chart as a part of a long-winded way of saying stocks are [...]

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 [...]

No matter where we have been over time in this recession, there have been people saying this time is different. Everything form the financial crisis to the real estate bubble to blah blah blah. For the most part these are things that I ignore. Every time is different. This time the recession was harder, and [...]