The puppet Lamb Chop's days as a beloved character for children have generally subsided given that the transformative kids show is long off the air, but the puppet lives on with a new set of fans: dogs. Dogs cannot get enough of Lamb Chop. Chewy, the pet superstore, said that Lamb Chop is the second-most popular dog to...

Lots of the most dangerous roads in America have something in common: They're state-managed roads in municipalities. When municipalities are responsible for roads, they can be proactive and responsive to the desires of the community, so dangerous intersections get addressed and speed limits get toggled until a better i...

What's the best value of #tp? Manufacturers of toilet paper get needlessly clever with equivalences, claiming, for instance, that a sheet is some sort of consistent or fungible unity, and that double- or triple-ply tissue constitutes a savings. Indeed, a "roll" is not even a reliable unit; Charmin's regular r...

By some metrics, we're in a declining age of love songs. Of the 5,100 Billboard Top 10 hits from 1958 to 2023, 1,040 of them could be called "serenades," or songs about love and devotion sung from one person to another. These are indeed in decline, going from 23 percent of hits in the 1960s and up to 27 perce...

Because we've societally completely run out of ideas and are just desperate to string together enough proper nouns you might like in order to sell some cards, Hasbro will release a 111-card game for two to five players where the object is to collect different items to earn points, and they will call it MONOPOLY Deal: H...

Last year consumers in the United States returned $743 billion worth of merchandise, which was 14.5 percent of all the things they bought. That's up, an increase from 10.6 percent in 2020 according to the National Retail Federation. Given that there are costs to a business of returning an unwanted good - including ship...

From January to September, there were 38.1 million televisions sold with a width of at least 97 inches, or just over 8 feet. The massive televisions are taking off, in no small part because prices have dropped significantly; the first 98-inch television from Samsung was introduced in 2019 at a price of $99,000, and thi...

NFL national ratings are steady this year, which is the best that can be hoped for in an election year. However, local market television ratings are down for 25 out of the 32 teams through the eighth week of play. Teams that are beating their local viewership include the Houston Texans (up 36 percent) and Detroit (up 1...

"The power grid" is actually several different grids that operate across the country, and two of them - the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) and the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) - this week gave green lights to massive investments in new high-voltage power lines. The SPP's board overwhelmingly ap...

The American people lost $12.5 billion to online criminals and scammers in 2023, and according to the FBI, $652 million of that went to romance and confidence scams. Scammers are getting bolder and more ambitious, and bleeding older people - who may have diminished faculties, or are merely lonely and easy prey for a de...

The companies that specialize in bundling up "buy now, pay later" debt for health care needs are making a killing on bundling up the debt from people undergoing cosmetic surgeries and selling it to investors. Cherry Technologies wanted to package up $250 million worth of loans for cosmetic procedures into a b...

You Can't Do That! Two Yankees fans sitting in the front row near the foul pole in right field were called for fan interference after they tried to rip Mookie Betts' glove off of his hand as he made a play on a foul ball in Game 4 of the World Series. Betts appeared to have made the play right as the ball reached the f...

The U.S. market for instant noodles has grown 36 percent over the past five years and hit $2.7 billion in 2023, making the U.S. the sixth-largest market for instant noodles in the world. There were 5 billion servings eaten in the U.S. annually, up from 3 billion in 2000, and the number of servings has surged from 13.4 ...

Following Hurricane Milton, the CEO of Florida Power & Light said that power lines that were buried underground fared 12 to 13 times better than those aboveground, which raises the question of why they're not just buried in the first place. Utilities in Florida have been burying more power lines underground ever si...

Hurricanes cause damage, but even when insured the blow can mean that businesses are unable to reopen and go under. Numbers vary - the Small Business Administration says that a quarter of businesses never reopen after a disaster, but FEMA puts the figure at 43 percent of small businesses that close for good. Within a d...

Cage-free eggs have risen sharply in popularity, rising from 5 percent of hens in 2012 to 40 percent of the U.S. flock as of March 2024. Cage-free is far from perfect, but egg producers appear to be preparing for it to be the dominant form of egg in the future. Multiple states are preparing bans on eggs from hens house...

Auto insurance prices were up 16.3 percent in September compared to the same month last year, which is down from the 22.6 percent higher seen in April but still very high. About to make that worse is a series of bad storms, Helene and Milton, which will cost $3 billion to $5 billion in auto losses, or about 10 percent ...

A new study of 1,545 teens surveyed by researchers found that many of them are working hard to dive into adult habits such as "completely burning yourself out" and "obsessing about your future at an unhealthy level." Of those surveyed, 56 percent said they felt pressure to have a game plan for their...

The thousands of RedBox DVD rental kiosks are very, very obviously never getting picked up by their very bankrupt owner, so tinkerers are buying 'em up from the places that are still hosting one of the dead machines and, naturally, getting them to play Doom and trying to crack the OS so they can be reused for some cock...

We live in world were ego, power, arrogance bulldoze over the humble, soft and quiet? Why? Here's a good reminder from one of my favorite early morning devotionals Though our world usually does not regarded the trait of meekness highly, God views it differently. Meekness is a character trait Jesus used to describe Hims...