San Jose airport experiments with therapy dogs to ease passengers’ anxiety

It started when I saw Christmas decorations on sale at Target in September. At the beginning of November, the same shopping center was bedecked with garland and ribbon, which would have been bad enough in December since  [more...]

I’ve referred to the ridiculous use of news helicopters before – particularly the pointless “Chopper 4” here in Washington, DC. Today I was amused by another example of this wasteful gimmick: on  [more...]

There’s a bottle of water that, seemingly as it’s sole purpose, lives on my living room table. That’s because every morning I take it out and put it there as I get ready to leave the house. Two blocks  [more...]