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IS THERE ANY JOB HARDER THAN LABOR?

As we get ready to celebrate a day set aside to honor laborers all across America, it brings up the question, what is the hardest job of all?  If you ask a woman who has given birth to a child she will challenge you to come up with any job more difficult than that.  This [...]

HOW DO HURRICANES GET THEIR NAMES?

Since Europeans first came to the Americas and the Caribbean, hurricanes have been named using a variety of systems.  First they were named after Catholic saints.  Later on, the latitude-longitude positions of a storm’s formation was used as a name.  This was a little too cumbersome to use in conversation.
Military meteorologists started giving female names [...]

WHAT’S THE UGLIEST-SOUNDING WORD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE?

In a poll, American speech teachers came up with the ugliest-sounding words in the English language.  Their list included plump, gripe, sap, jazz, crunch, treachery, cacophony, phlegmatic, plutocrat, and flatulence.  Personally, I think there are much uglier-sounding words than those.  Why isn’t vomit on the list?  Consider using this list to seed the topic and [...]

YOU KNOW YOUR KID’S A NERD WHEN

We all want our kids to be cool and well adjusted.  Nobody wants to see their child be the school nerd, but unfortunately, there have always been, and always will be, kids who are designated as the school nerd.
With that in mind, consider the topic, “Your Kid Might Be A Nerd If….” Here are a [...]

WHICH COUNTRY SPENDS THE MOST OF VIDEO GAMES?

As you struggle to keep your kids from playing video games 24/7 this summer, you probably think Americans are the biggest consumers of video games, but you would be wrong.  Americans spend on average $41.60 per capita on video games, a full $25.40 less than the country that spends the most per year on video [...]

TANNING MAY BE AN ADDICTION

If you’re hoping to extend your summer tan or get a jump start before your Labor Day getaway by using a tanning bed, you may want to think again.  More than half of adults think a “base tan” is a healthy way to protect skin from sun damage, according to a recent survey by the [...]

MORE AMERICANS ARE COUPON-CLIPPING

It seems the weak economy has motivated more of us to clip those coupons in the Sunday newspaper.  89% of shoppers now say they use coupons at the supermarket.  The average American family saves from $5 to $9 per week with coupons which comes out to over $400 a year.

WHO IS THE MOST ANNOYING SPOKESPERSON OF 2010?

Now that the “I’m a Mac/I’m a PC” guy are rumored to have been retired by Apple, Consumer Reports wanted to see which spokesperson should next get the axe.  The Consumerist, one of Consumer Reports’ websites, conducted a poll of over 10,000 readers to find out who is the most annoying spokesperson of 2010 and [...]

LOVE A LAWYER TODAY

August 31st is designated as Love Litigating Lawyers Day, a day set aside to back off on the usual lawyer jokes and appreciate all of the good things they do for us.  One reason why lawyers get such a bad name in America might be just how many liability lawsuits are filed in this country [...]

FALL IN THE U.S. BIRTHRATE MAY BE TIED TO THE RECESSION

The. U.S. birthrate has dropped for a second year in a row, and experts think the recession has led many people to put off having children.  The 2009 birthrate also set a record as the lowest in a century.  Births fell 2.6 percent last year even as the population grew, numbers released Friday by the [...]