Bob Barker, the greatest game show host in history, announced his retirement from The Price is Right last week. He’s stepping down in June 2007, at 83 years old and just short of 35 years hosting Price. I’ve never known life without Bob Barker hosting The Price is Right, weekdays at 10 am Central on … Read more
Remember those children’s sales clubs that advertised on the back covers of comic books (and Boys’ Life, and probably a few places I’m forgetting)? The deal was, they’d send you a catalog of inexpensive merchandise (thank-you cards, address books, plastic desktop organizers, seven-in-one tools for the kitchen drawer, that kind of thing) for you to … Read more
No, nothing about political bias here, or showing videos of enemy snipers shooting American soldiers, which I found indefensible and thoroughly repulsive. Today I’m talking about The Onion. The Onion is the site I would choose if I were only allowed to visit one site the rest of my life. I don’t think I’ve ever … Read more