Oil prices rose today, even after OPEC failed to come to an agreement to lower production; Russia promised to increase output; oil workers stopped striking after several days in Kuwait; and inventories increased in the United States. 3 Possible Explanations… Read More ›
Month: April 2016
McDonald’s Testing All You Can Eat Fries
Time reports that McDonald’s is testing its potential restaurant of the future at a Missouri location. You can use self-serve kiosks to customize your burgers, and order all-you-can-eat-fries. Someone (or since this is the future, maybe some robot) will bring… Read More ›
Former YellowPages.Com Bidding To Buy Yahoo
The Globe and Mail reports that YP Holdings, owner of the web page formerly known as yellowpages.com is putting in a bid to buy Yahoo. 3 Questions That Arise From This Story The Yellow Pages are still a thing online?… Read More ›
Axl Rose To Join AC/DC On Tour
CNN reports that W. Axl Rose will replace lead singer Brian Johnson on AC/DC’s “Rock Or Bust” tour, as Johnson has hearing issues. Here are three alternate names we propose for this tour given this information. “Shook Me All Night… Read More ›
Poll: Almost Half Of Canadians Dissatisfied With Cable Packages
According to an Angus Reid poll, 49% of Canadians think cable TV is “not very good/terrible value for what you pay.” 3 Observations For This Story This presumably makes HGTV very sad. Do you think people want to make bundled… Read More ›
Trump Prepared To Lose Wyoming
CTV reports that Donald Trump is prepared to cede Wyoming. 3 Observations About This Story In terms of popularity, giving up the State that gave us Dick Cheney may be a sign that you are becoming increasing unlikeable among voters…. Read More ›
Four more Avatar movies? We’ve got some titles.
CNN reports that James Caneron announced there will be four more Avatar sequels… Apparently because three won’t quite tell the story. We’ve got some suggestions for titles for the sequels: 1. Another Box Office Record = Unobtanium 2. Dumb stuff… Read More ›
Average Manhattan Apartment Costs Over $2 Million
Yahoo Finance reports that the average Manhattan apartment is over $2 million, while the median apartment is more like $1.1 million. 3 Explanations For This Discrepancy Donald Trump’s penthouse is driving up the average, in part, because like his net worth, he… Read More ›
3 More Reasons We Suspect Trump Kids Didn’t Register To Vote
Yesterday we wrote that Ivanka and Eric Trump failed to register in time to vote in the New York Republican Primary. We have 3 suggestions as to why… They thought they needed the official longer-than-official-long-form Trump-demanded birth certificate along with… Read More ›
Ivanka and Eric Trump Didn’t Register To Vote!
CBC reports that Ivanka and Eric Trump missed the October 9, 2015 deadline to register in the New York Republican primary and therefore cannot vote for their father. Donald Trump was reported saying this to Fox and Friends: “They had… Read More ›