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One of America’s most divisive issues has been officially decided by the highest judicial authorities in the land, thereby ending a culture war that wrapped up religious groups, fast food chicken restaurants, political activists of all stripes, and the national media writ large.  Now, thankfully to those exhausted with the media cycle and all the […]

There’s no such thing as too much choice.  Sure, in some cases, you might not want all the choices you get, but when it comes to paying for something like, say, a cable channel, then options are always good.  In the wake of HBO’s announcement of a stand-alone streaming service, Showtime immediately jumped on board, […]

The Guinness Book of World Records is pretty weird.  There are lots of records, and no doubt a bunch of them are doughnut related.  The world loves doughnuts; Americans really love doughnuts.  There’s a doughnut holiday, and we’re even looking into making getting doughnuts a lot easier.  The city of Hamburg Township, Michigan, really loves […]

Saint Louis prides itself on its baseball team.  They’re huge baseball fans in that part of the world, and they’re alwasy very proud of the way their team conducts itself and the way the team behaves.  Sure, fans might get a little blue, but the orgainzation does things the right way, according to them.  Not […]

She attended Howard University, where her art portfolio was of mostly black people.  She has adopted black siblings courtesy of her parents.  She’s been a spokesperson for Spokane, Washington’s black community on national television, and she’s the president of the Spokane chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (or NAACP).  And […]

In 2012, everyone was eagerly awaiting the newest model of Tesla Motors’ hip new electric car.  The Model X SUV was originally scheduled to come out in 2013, but was delayed significantly time and time again.  Tesla is a company that wants to put out the best product they can, not simply rush something to […]

When it comes to American thoroughbred horse racing, the sport of kings has fallen on hard times.  Sure, it still draws big, drunk celebrities to the signature events, like the Kentucky Derby, but aside from that, horse racing isn’t exactly setting the world on fire.  However, that might be changing.  It’s been 37 years since […]

When you’re dealing with data on a massive scale, it’s really hard to keep everything secure.  The more things get stored on servers or put up into the cloud or whatever, the more likely things are to get misplaced or outright stolen by nefarious parties or rogue states.  When you’re talking about the United States […]