It’s been a tough several years for the reputation of Johnson & Johnson. Over two dozen recalls affecting its most popular products including Tylenol, Benadryl and Motrin have created questions about quality processes at the venerable company. The Huffington Post notes The number of recalls and the company’s handling of them – including a 2008…
Workers at the San Francsico Zoo were surprised on Friday morning when they discovered breaches in a perimeter fence and in the meshing around the squirrel monkey habitat. They were worried when they discovered that Banana-Sam, a much-beloved monkey, was missing. A day later, on Saturday evening, a man walking through a park noticed movement…
Wilfredo Rodena has had a lot of quiet time to think. 22 years into a 25 year sentence for armed kidnapping he thinks he may have found a way to make “one houndred dollarys”. Rodena recently filed suit alleging his civil rights were violated by his defense attorney, “I don’t know my lawyer’s name”, who…
When Dr. Fred Ravens of Reading, MA purchased the house next to his office from the family of an elderly woman, he knew the walls were filled with memories. He didn’t know that they were also filled with cash. When the crew he hired began to knock down walls, cash began flying out- $2500 in…
One would think it would be rather simple to count the toes on an elephant. For many years the answer has been 5. But recently John Hutchinson published a paper declaring the answer to be 6. What we learned reading How The Elephant Got Its Sixth Toe: Elephants have a sixth toe which is hidden…
Fear Factor went off the air in 2006 due to poor ratings, and for some reason or other, a cadre of fans pined for its return. The show, emblematic of much of what is lacking in modern culture, will soon make its return to NBC. The network is desperate for a hit, and Matt Kunitz,…
In 1989, for a brief run,Disney uncharacteristically let its hair down. A musical review produced for Comedy Warehouse, one of the late Pleasure Island’s night clubs, called Forbidden Disney, viciously poked fun at Disney itself. According to DeScope Michael Eisner gave Walt Disney Imagineering this assignment: “Create a show for the Comedy Warehouse. It should…
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] There has been much press about SOPA and the potentially chilling effect it will have on free expression. There is no question that the law should not be passed, and we urge all to contact their elected officials and voice their opposition. Just as important, we need to…
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman are accustomed to busting myths. But this week, the hosts of television’s “Mythbusters” busted two houses and a minivan. A cannonball fired at tanks of water at bomb demolition range missed its target and careened for 700 yards through 2 houses and a car. Fortunately, nobody was injured. “Crazy, crazy,…
Image via Wikipedia James Jay Lee has taken hostages at the Discovery Channel in an attempt to force them to change their programming to reflect his Malthusian worldview. Apparently, Discovery’s programming about child birth has led to a heretofore unknown baby boom which will overwhelm our planet with “parasitic human infants” and “filthy human children”.…