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Our overworked and underpaid staff needs a day off.  Unfortunately, or fortunately for news wonks, this world continues to deep fry Ten Piece Nuggets at a prodigious clip.  There is no nugget supply chain shortage.  We borrowed this line.  Ok, we stole it.   It’s too good not to.  It looks like the only person at …

One day after Whoppi Goldberg said that the Nazi Concentration Camps were not about race, Brian Flores filed a suit saying that the NFL is all about race. So yesterday, 2/1/22, the first day of Black History Month, history was made all over again. The NFL and its playoffs were flying high with the Super …

It’s February 1st, the middle of the winter.  You need some warmth and comfort.  What better way is there to get that than to digest some Ten Piece Nuggets? They’re served one at a time and randomly below.  Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau says that he tested positive for Covid-19.  Is he hiding from the convoy …

Surely once or thrice you’ve been asked to think outside of the box. A wise CEO once asked a group a few moons ago to think inside of the box.  Why?  To get their attention is one reason.  And, to realize where you are, where you want to go, and how to get there is …

If it’s Breyer’s, it’s got to still be good!  Any ice cream company founded in 1866 and still churning today has to be good. But, with FDA government regulations, even good goes bad when it gets old.  Use by this date or discard the label says. Yesterday, someone somewhere in the government decided that U.S. …

It’s time to lighten it up a bit. One of our faithful readers forwarded the quotes and jokes about the game of football below.  We blatantly copied nearly all of them for you.  Enjoy as the season is but three games from being over. First, here are the quotes. “I make my practices real hard …

For over forty years the one constant in fighting crime on a national level is McGruff the Crime Dog.  He debuted in 1980 with a series of public service announcements educating citizens on personal security measures, such as locking doors and putting lights on timers, in order to reduce crime. McGruff did and continues to serve loyally.  …

How can you win when you lose? Stacey Abrams was a big win for the Democratic Party on a national level when she lost the 2018 Georgia Gubernatorial Race. Maybe few saw it then, but looking back you can see it clearly now. “Voter suppression,” she screamed.  “Vote counting irregularity,” the Dems and their national …

There’s some good news and bad news in our world as we know it on 1/19/22.    And today you’ll need to take the good with the bad.  And in a marked departure from our inflationary times, you’ll get 12 for the price of 10.   Yum.  Good news-  Pfizer said its Covid-19 pill approved by …

There’s free and then there’s freedom. And, free is getting more plentiful while freedom is getting harder to find. But, aren’t the best things in life free? That depends on where you look. It costs nothing to catch Omicron, but that’s not the best thing in life.  But, at least our government is doing all …