DogsOfWar

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Dogs of War was born in a crossfire hurricane. He wrestles alligators in the pouring rain.

Open Caption: Simon Cowell Is a Doggy Daddy

SimonDogsSmallSometimes an image just needs the right words to go with it. Simon Cowell has provided just that image.

Yesterday Mr. Cowell decided that an incoming human baby just wasn’t enough excitement in his life and he decided to get two puppies to fill out his instant family.

He’s gone from globe trotting playboy to stay at home dad almost overnight. The only thing left for him to do is get a minivan.

Go forth and caption. Or, if you’d rather suggest names for his pups that would work too.
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All the Possible Endings for Breaking Bad (That I Could Think of)

WalterWhiteGrafitiThere are a few things we know for sure about this Sunday’s Breaking Bad, but the rest is speculation.

Here I will speculate about how it all comes to an end. If you aren’t up to date on this season then you should avoid reading this because it will spoil you. Don’t do that to yourself. Also, there’s a Dexter spoiler in here. Continue reading →

California’s New $9.00 Minimum Wage in Historical Perspective

$9.00 per hour! Why when I was a kid walking to school up hill both ways in the snow we only made $0.23 per hour and an hour lasted ten times longer than it does now. Can you believe these whippersnappers wanting to get $9.00 per hour?

Or, how exactly does California’s newly passed $9.00 per hour minimum wage, the highest state minimum in the nation, compare in constant dollars to the minimum wage when your grandpappy was only knee high to a grasshopper? Let this handy chart explain it to you. Continue reading →

Song Lyrics that Are Factually Incorrect

factsSometimes you’re sitting there singing along with that song you’ve had a million times and then you stop and say to yourself, “hey, wait a minute, that doesn’t make sense and is actually wrong.” Well those lyricists out there sometimes just jam words together, don’t actually know what they’re talking about or change reality to fit their rhymes.

Here are just a few songs that have lyrics that are factually incorrect. Continue reading →

Proven Steps to Become Upwardly Mobile

moneyThe nice folks over at Mint have put together an infographic showing some data driven ways that people can climb the socio-economic ladder.

Since pictures are complicated I’ve distilled down for you are the things you can do right now to make sure your children are statistically more likely to better off than you are.

It’s science so this is foolproof.

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Millennials Distilled into Infographic Form

Quick, how many types of millennials are there? If you answered seven then you’re right, or something, whatever, stop hassling me and let me play my video games.

Mint.com has put together this handy infographic for old people to explain what the seven types of millenials are and all the different ways they’re unemployed or live in their mom’s basement. Continue reading →

iRobot Roomba Cleaning Robot for Pets and Allergies Review

Roomba770The idea of having a robot do anything in my home is instantly appealing thanks to the many robots who have appeared on my television and given me a grand dream of what robots might someday become. Is the Roomba an evolutionary step toward Rosie from The Jetsons?

The Roomba roaming around seemingly randomly through my house is officially the iRobot Roomba 770 Vacuum Cleaning Robot for Pets and Allergies. We have one large dog and primarily hard wood floors, with rugs in the master bedroom and livingroom. Roomba (iRobot likes to drop any ‘a’ or ‘the’ when referring to Roomba so as to make it more personal) took very little setup before being operational. Just some un-boxing and removing of packing material from the innards of the robot. Continue reading →