We’ve brought it upon ourselves, fellow travelers. We’ve readily—and rightfully—earned the title, “Ugly Americans.” It’s not simply because we yell into our BlackBerrys while visiting the Sistine Chapel or drool fried Oreos down the front of our wife beaters as we peruse paintings in the Louvre. We’ve gone beyond the realm of ruining foreign...
Gloves. A must have when you trek outside in the dead of winter. A trusted tool when you work in construction. And a fashionable accessory for the uber chic gala event. But there’s more to wearing gloves than just pulling them on and wiggling your fingers. Wearing gloves comes with some simple responsibilities of...
Leslie Nielsen died Sunday — and if you didn’t chuckle, just a little, you didn’t understand this fantastic comedian, who will continue to fill Saturday afternoons with classics like Airplane, The Naked Gun and Police Squad. But Nielsen wasn’t always a great comedic actor — he was a serious one too. So in tribute...
Thanksgiving is all about drinking too much and then yelling at family members. That’s why you need something like Four Loko — the caffeinated fruity alcoholic beverage that is getting banned around the nation. Banned stuff is cool in our book, even if one 23 oz. can will leave you blasted for the evening....
National Opt Out day was a roaring success. It fizzled into a non-event. Well, the TSA would like you to think it was a complete failure, that nothing came of the event (check out this list of “positive” news stories the TSA found) that however is simply not true. While the major media toed...
There’s nothing worse than an airplane bathroom except an airplane bathroom with urine puddles on the floor and little droplets marking the seat. I get that it’s a small, cramped space, and sometimes turbulence makes going a little more challenging. But the hole’s big enough to hit the target each time, assuming the armed...
A group of British scientists have created a scoring system that suggests alcohol is the most dangerous drug to society. Groups of pub goers around the world have created another study suggesting that scientists need a drink. The study created at scoring system for drugs that ranked each substance on its impact on people...
How much safer will you be when you or your pilot is forced to have a full body scan or an enhanced pat down by TSA screeners? These secondary screenings are coming to more airports and people are being singled out by TSA agents to go through a full body imaging machine or, if...
I’ve been flying a lot over the last few months, raking in the frequent flyer points, observing humanity as its possible worst, and scarfing tepid fast food while running from gate to gate to make connections, only to wait for an hour on the tarmac once on board. So I’ve had some time to...
