I am really not a fan of polling.  They capture someone’s opinion at a time it doesn’t matter.  We all know Congress has terrible approval ratings, but almost every person that runs for re-election gets it.  Why?  For one thing people have a better perception of their elected official than the actions of Congress as [...]

A new study shows that knowing the end of a story makes the story itself all that much more enjoyable.  Spoilers allow us to not focus on the plot and really get engrossed in the details. If you’re like me and don’t even want to waste your time and money on things like going to [...]

Am I the only one that can’t help but think of this when people keep talking about the hurricane?  I can’t be. Seriously though, this hurricane nonsense has been extreme.  It’s the perfect example of a media frenzy during a time when there just really isn’t anything else to talk about. A hurricane is nothing [...]

File this under the “link bait headlines and easy 5 minute filler piece on nightly news” category. The news people just LOOOOVE an easy story that they can start with “researchers have announced…” or “a recent study indicates…”. The stories never really mean much of anything because they either corroborate an existing theory or will [...]

The 24 hour news cycle on TV was once considered the worst thing to ever happen to news. But I would argue that the presence of too many news websites and blogs has ruined journalism even more. Still, here’s a collection from both that just makes just makes me sick. Apple touches top spot by [...]

The Golden Age of Saturday Night Live is a misnomer.  Everyone has their own golden age and it’s always about whenever you watched the show.  I mostly watched SNL in the late 90s and early 2000s as well as a dabbling of reruns from the early 90s.  Of of my favorite segments was Celebrity Jeopardy.  [...]

Bob Dylan famously said… cliche… about how things change.  It was a song that basically reports on the changes going on during the 1960s.  Since then Dylan’s song has become a cliche for any period that wasn’t like the prior one.  It’s all very boring. What isn’t so boring is the attempt to classify and [...]

The BBC has a list of the biggest fouls the American language has had on the original “British” English.  Some of them are quite funny, funnier still is that the Brits think their language is either proper, or the way we’re supposed to speak English.  Don’t see much of them talking like Shakespeare or King [...]