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If you put 100 red ants and 100 black ants in a jar they peacefully coexist.  If you shake the jar they fight each other till death. This sounds a lot like America today.  Who is shaking our jar? Power-hungry politicians and click-hungry social media types come to mind.  Together they’ve told us repeatedly why …

How low can you go? Limbo got its start as a traditional dance contest on the Caribbean island of Trinidad. But, here recently, it looks like the contest has moved to the U.S.   And, it looks like the bar is being lowered at an accelerated pace in an uncontested manner. People from many walks of …

Stodgy old Campbell’s Soup Company is missing a great opportunity to reconnect its brand and its market share-challenged Alphabet Soup recipe to today’s generation. One simple call to Dylan Mulvaney’s agent could do it.   Don’t lead.  Follow nike and Bud Light.  Dylan has put those two brands front and center this week. One Mulvaney commercial …

Yesterday, the fickle folks perusing Al Gore’s internet spent a good bit of the day debating if the King of Beers had become the beer of queens. Meanwhile, one borough over from Queens, DA Alvin Bragg was in Manhattan attempting to put another nail in the former king’s coffin. Donald Trump was arranged in NY …

One of our senior editors fell asleep on the job Saturday.  As a result, the news that may or not be true was not able to be published until this morning. Not to worry, BBR is a caring organization.  We gave our editor a raise and a pat on the back for a nice try …

In 1972 the US government passed legislation known as Title IX abolishing discriminatory differential treatment based on sex in federally funded high school and college education. It opened, “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination …

The bodies of the six victims in yesterday’s Nashville Christian School shooting hadn’t even cooled down yet before the rapidly evolving and bickering US public began throwing haymakers assigning blame for this latest senseless loss of life. Using “hadn’t even cooled down yet” to describe the deceased would have been looked at as a macabre …

There are some things that you can pick and choose, some that you can’t, and some that you shouldn’t. For example, you can pick your friends, but you can’t choose your neighbors. When you go to the movie you can choose your seat, but you shouldn’t pick the seat of your pants. You can choose …

It seems unlikely that we can Make America Great Again(MAGA).  Elections, 81 million voters, election denials, impeachments, insurrections, and classified documents seem to have derailed the Trump train like the one in East Palestine, OH. Maybe we could at least Make America Fun Again(MAFA).  It would be nice to wake up with less stress and …

Happy Pi day. Happy birthday to Albert Einstein born on this day in 1879. We’re serving up ten eleven skinnylichious nuggets that in theory would make Einstein proud.  It’s all relative.  Warren Buffett has famously said, “you have to wait until the tide goes out to see who is swimming naked.”  Well it looks like …