• No one ever calls shotgun when they are boading a school bus.
  • If I live to be 100, my 100th birthday will fall on a Saturday. That's a pretty good incentive to stay alive 70 more years.
  • I'm pretty sure at some point I will be considered too old to be drinking Mountain Dew. I'm not sure what I'll drink when that day comes.

Lessons from the Bush Leagues: Applying the Minor League Mindset to High School Athletics (Part II)

If the student-athletes at your school are playing in front of more empty seats than filled ones, maybe it is time to get creative.

Lessons from the Bush Leagues: Applying the Minor League Mindset to High School Athletics (Part I)

Nearly everything I was seeing in the Minor League Ballparks – the wacky promotions, the entertaining mascots, and the carnival-like atmospheres – could easily be applied to high school athletics. Here’s how.

Micro-market Beloit Tries to Snap up Fans by Sticking to Basics

In professional sports you have big market teams and small market teams. And then you have the Beloit Snappers, a Class A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins, who play in a market so small, it almost warrants classification as a micro-market. Indeed, if there were a baseball franchise version of life-support, the Snappers would be on it.

How to Dumb Down your Resume in Five Easy Steps

If your overqualification is quickly becoming desperation, you may be tempted to put the dumb treatment to your resume. Follow these five tips and you will be on your way back down the career ladder in no time.

Green Day Sticks It To The Man, “21st Century” Style

21st Century Breakdown has essentially been kicked out of the biggest music retailer in the country, and all Green Day can do is say “no, sorry, we won’t make you another record.”

Come on. That’s so NOT rock-n-roll. Green Day is supposed to be the voice of a misguided, disgruntled generation.

US Auto Industry Makes U-Turn, Embraces Fuel Efficiency Standards

The Summer of 2009 is shaping up to be a bizzaro version of 2007, especially when it comes to the US auto industry.

IRS Joins FDA in Cereal Crackdown

Mikey is part of a growing number of children being targeted by the IRS for failure to pay taxes on the toy prizes found in their cereal boxes.

KFC and the Danger of Free: Why the Great Chicken Giveaway of 2009 Wasn’t so Great

KFC may do chicken right, but free chicken? That’s another story.
On Friday, KFC issued an apology and a raincheck to angry “customers” who were turned away during a recent promotion for the chain’s new Kentucky Grilled Chicken.
The promotion, designed to be the centerpiece of the Grilled Chicken product launch, was fairly straight forward: place a [...]

Kindle DX: The Textbook Killer?

What is big and bulky, useless after six months, and costs about $150? Your average college textbook, of course (although the Ford Festiva I drove in college also fits that description). Thanks to e-commerce titan Amazon.com, the textbooks of tomorrow may continue to cost an arm and a leg, but they won’t otherwise physically impair [...]

Domino’s Prepares for Next Pizza Crisis

Here is a quick, two question pop quiz for you (do your own work – no using Google):
#1). Name the fast food chain that, in December of 2008, suffered a public relations crisis when three semi-nude teenage girls took a bath together in a sink used to clean dishes and posted pictures of the act [...]