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A useful reminder of the staggering productivity of American farmers.
Answer: California, Iowa, Texas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, Kansas, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Indiana. Question: Whatever happened to world hunger?
It's been quite a year for sports, all right.
The Patriots' stunning comeback was just the latest in an epic string of championship games -- we take a look back.
Related: "Are we in the greatest era of championship sports?"
I didn't know about sorrel before, but now I do.
I laughed. (But, please, don't try this at home.)
UPDATE: link included now.
If it weren't for them being relatively caloric and having oxalates, I'd certainly eat a lot more.
Pictures of some sweet things and moments.
A "When life hands you lemonade . . ." deal.
Some notes toward the history of San Francisco's famous "Singles Safeway," a forerunner to D.C.'s "Social Safeway".
First link courtesy of my older daughter.
Funny or sad: you decide.
When you gamble at a casino you're not just trying to beat the house--difficult enough--you're also trying to beat the government. Lots of luck.
Governments acquiesce in this unfairness because it also profits them. The industry paid more than $300 million in taxes to Atlantic City and the state of New Jersey in 2015. Since gambling was legalized there in 1978, they have paid $12 billion in total. That gives Trenton a lot of reasons to keep things operating in the casinos’ favor.