Archive for November, 2009
More Gitmo Depth
President Obama’s original deadline of January 2010 as the date to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison (known as “Gitmo”) has been pushed back as Congress continues to do what they do best – debate on issues while failing to come to any clear conclusions. Another Gitmo-related story this week suggests that a federal prison in Illinois [...]
Cy Young = Old pitcher, yearly award
Zack Greinke won the 2009 American League Cy Young Award today. For the baseball illiterate, the Cy Young Award is given each year to the best pitcher in each league (American and National) as voted on by a selected group of sportswriters. Why is it called “the Cy Young?” Cy Young was a pitcher wayyyy [...]
Purpose of Endowment Funds
For many years, not much was made of a university’s endowment fund. Everyone was aware that large schools had them, but the enormity in size of these funds wasn’t publicly known except to those regularly reading Business Week and Barron’s. Then the market collapsed and the economy shrank. When the middle class starts losing their [...]
2012 – The Apocalypse (Again)
The new movie 2012 comes to a “theater near you” today, and the subject is the end of the world, based on actual theories that the world will end in December, 2012. Like all of the other apocalypses which have failed to come to fruition, true believers think we’re crazy for not panicking. What I [...]
New Moon, New Movie
Back in May, we gave you the speed course on everything Twilight. For a refresher, click here. The first film made a ton of cash and, as mentioned in the May post, the next movie will be released November 20, a week from Friday. Normally we only give you a day or two notice on [...]
Origin of Veterans Day
Today is Veterans Day, an American holiday to honor our military veterans. How long has this tradition been taking place? Veterans Day began in 1919 when President Woodrow Wilson declared November 11 a day to celebrate World War I veterans. It didn’t become a legal holiday until 1938. Veterans Day was originally known as Armistice Day to [...]
Did the Dolphins do it on “Porpoise”?
A story was released today describing the reason for the increase in dead porpoises washing ashore on California beaches recently. Despite my bad pun of a title, it appears that researchers have discovered a serious problem with dolphins attacking porpoises. Wait – I thought a porpoise WAS a dolphin?! The truth is they are closely [...]
RadioShack – Dropping the “Radio” but Adding iPhones?
Trying desperately to stay up to date with this century which started almost a decade ago, RadioShack announced in August that they will slowly be transitioning the “Radio” part out of the name. While the naming launch occurred over two months ago, every store I have passed by recently still has the “Radio” part on [...]
