There are some foods that seem so outrageously unhealthy that they shouldn’t even be considered, much less prepared.
Enter the Bacon Explosion.
Just bacon alone is not a very healthy food choice.  Most of us know that.  But when you add Italian Sausage to it, you’re really asking for it.  Especially when you’re talking about two pounds of each.
At 500 grams of …

The newsroom was in an uproar yesterday because someone brought a Snuggie they’d purchased. As this person tells it, she bought it as a gag gift, but then tried it and immediately became a Snuggie believer.
So we watched her little fashion show, during which she modeled what the product’s makers describe as the blanket that has sleeves.  And looking …

Depending on your web browser and the cooperation of your computer, next to the URL of this website, instead of the standard white blank page icon, you should see a black square with a white P, like the logo of the blog.  Also depending on your web browser, if you have my blog in your Favorites or Bookmarks, you should …

Can you believe it’s already the end of January? This month has moved by pretty quickly. At this rate, it’ll be summer time in no time. I’m ready for that!
In the meantime, I offer another set of questions for your amusement.

First to play last week: Laane of Laane on the World. Congratulations!
(According to the rules, “First to …

“Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee and turning on your home computer to read the day’s newspaper.”
That revolutionary idea was proposed at the start of a 1981 KRON-TV news story about this little thing called the internet and how some newspapers were trying to invest money on making some of their content available for people to …

Or maybe it’s a load of something else.
Maybe I’m a bad alum.  I’m not the kind of guy whose world comes to a halt when USC plays.  (Yes, I mean USC, the University of South Carolina, not Southern Cal!)  In fact, USC’s record on the football field has pretty much zapped a great deal of the little enthusiasm I ever …

I remember this little bit from Sesame Street in the 1970s.  It featured Jim Henson’s Muppet characters acting out a familiar old song, “There’s a Hole in the Bucket,” but the female Muppet’s reaction to her bungling husband’s stupidity made this one of the funniest Muppet pieces I’ve ever seen.
Before I found this clip on YouTube last night, I hadn’t …

I may never look at an abandoned tire the same way again after learning that a stash of $130,000 was found inside a tire lying on the side of the road.  I’d have found a way to put that money to much better use than what its alleged previous owners did.

Cat of This Much is True left the following comment to my post about the coach who was fired after his girls’ basketball team smoked its competition in a 100-0 blowout:
“In most leagues, there is a “slaughter rule” which sets a limit by which a team can be behind. Once that is reached, the game is automatically over. In Little …

This is one of the dumbest stories I’ve seen in a while, and I’ve seen many.
A coach at a Dallas private school has been fired after comments he made about the way his girls’ basketball team played a recent game.  That game ended with his team winning in a major blowout.  The final score was 100-0.
A blowout, indeed.
School officials decided …

Here’s an article about five warning signs that can tell you that your job may be in jeopardy.  One of them says you can tell by a walk through your business’s parking lot:
A clear sign that your company has fallen on hard times is when the president trades in his posh Jaguar for a Volkswagen Rabbit. He may be telling …

The number of names on the waiting list for coupons to help consumer offset the cost of digital television converter boxes has now topped the two-and-a-half million mark.  At $40 per coupon, that represents more than $110 Million that the National Telecommunications & Information Administration doesn’t have to give.
Congress could pass legislation this week that could switch the date broadcasters …

The face of daytime television may be headed towards a major makeover, knocking some familiar faces off the air.
A recent article on MSNBC reveals the problem networks are having with their soap operas, fixtures of daytime since television was in its infancy.  Recently, two of the medium’s most venerable soaps, The Young and the Restless and Days of Our Lives, …

Cell phones can make it easy to tell you whom you’ve talked to, because they keep track of your calls. Such a convenient little feature will give you the answers to this week’s question.

First to play last week: Otowi of Otowi
(According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the …

People have asked me over the years how I come up with all the questions each week for the Saturday Six and Sunday Seven. Just yesterday, I read an article in the Wordpress community offered a new plugin that would allow you to show all of your categories on the sidebar of your editing window so that as you …

“If you start to dwell on the wrong things, it’ll take you down fast. Every morning, I wake up and the first thing I think of is I’m thankful. I’m thankful for another day.” — Kay Yow

Kay Yow, NC State women’s basketball coach, has died after a decades-long battle with breast cancer.  She was 66.
It’s time for a quick confession:  …

On Monday, I wrote a bit about my big trip to visit my friends Archie and Rebekah and the South Bay Church team.  I ended that post by mentioning having gotten a “required” shot during the trip.  I’m sure, considering that San Francisco was part of the trip, everyone immediately imagined which “little” landmark I was referring to.
So, here are …

Visualization is a concept that many trainers value for clients looking to get into better shape.  But a gym in England is taking that concept to an odd extreme.
Gymbox in London has replaced some dumbbells with real human beings of various sizes and weights.  So when you’re lifting weights, in some cases, you’re actually lifting people, who’ll either sit quietly …