Topical insights for August #3

BMW is recalling 200,000 cars because the airbags do not properly deploy in a crash.  They first learned of the problem when 200,000 of their cars were test driven by Shia LaBeouf.  Airlines are charging military personnel additional fees for excess baggage.  Which is why the army is encouraging soldiers Read more…

Topical insights for August #2

Oil prices continue to fall because demand is rapidly declining.  And yet tickets to Eddie Murphy movies remain full price.  Hmmm. Texas officials say they dodged a major bullet this week.  Sure, Tropical Storm Edouard missed them, but they're talking about Jessica Simpson skipping Cowboys camp.  Pakistan's ruling coalition is Read more…

Topical insights for August #1

The U.S. government announced plans to raise $27 billion to help erase the deficit.  Although advisers suggested a new 30-year bond, President Bush wants to raise the money by making another Batman movie.  A previously unseen portrait of a woman was found beneath a Vincent van Gogh painting.  Art historians Read more…

Living Out of a Samsonoot

Living Out of a Samsonoot I'm back from the Comedy Through Asia Extravanganza Special Tour of Good Luck.  And I have a new Chinese tattoo that says that exact thing, or so they tell me that's what it says.  The tour through Asia was actually named "Shanghai Dave's Headliner Tour".  Read more…