Comedian Lewis Black is fond of explaining why
solar energy will not work: “Because the sun goes away each day and doesn’t
tell you where it is going.” But don’t tell that to the respondents to a recent
Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Huffing isn’t a new idea. Getting high off
inhalants found in everything from spray paint to permanent markers has been a
pop culture norm for quite some time. A recent resurgence of this topic in the
news isn’t really surprising either.
Some of you must wonder what global business really means to people in Wooster, Ohio, or Paducah, Ky. - and, does it really play in Peoria? So, when I found this little tidbit, I had to share.
Now that spring has begun, it is time to declare a winner in the first annual Anti-Freeze Challenge. This challenge asked entrants to find a way to save money, reduce energy, and maintain comfort in the average home.
I’m not good at math, but I know I wrote my
first column for a magazine (the old RSC) published by BNP Media (then Business
News Publishing) in June 1985. I’ve written a monthly column ever since.
Usually the biggest disaster one has to worry about on one’s wedding day is Uncle Al getting overserved and somehow ending up with the microphone and making an inappropriate toast. For a couple in Brooklyn, the bigger problem was air conditioning.
In
a recent Sunday newspaper, the comic strip Zits had the teenager Jeremy
intensely studying some advanced calculus, chemistry, and American literature.
When he reaches time to study science, the word “chloro-fluro…” appears in one
panel only to have Jeremy walk away, bits of knowledge leaking out of his
brain.
Unfortunately for most duct tape manufacturers, almost nobody recommends using duct tape to seal ducts because eventually the adhesive dries out and the tape begins to peel. So what good is duct tape if you can’t use it on your ducts?
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