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July 17, 2018
Living off the fat of the land
This week, I have good news for all of you poor slobs who are out there doing crazy things like watching what you eat and working out. There’s no need! The world’s junk food manufacturers are going to look after us. For example, according to a Reuters’ report, a prominent chocolate bar maker announced that […]
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July 10, 2018
If the shoe fits
Pardon me for saying so, but your shoes are stupid. I don’t mean to say that your shoes look stupid, although what you were thinking when you wore that blue and pink pair out last week, I do not know. What I mean is that your shoes aren’t very intelligent. Adidas announced some time ago […]
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July 3, 2018
Pas de Pudginess
If there’s any book that went flying off the shelves faster than “The Da Vinci Code” it was “French Women Don’t Get Fat.” The book explains the so-called “French paradox” — the ability of the French to eat seemingly rich food without getting a case of les grands buttocks. I could summarize the book by […]
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May 2, 2018
It Could Have Been a Contenda
It’s hard to believe around fifty years ago people were once *excited* by an invention called television. It must have seemed so promising. You could watch an escapist glamorous Hollywood musical. You could travel back in time to the wild west. Variety shows introduced you to exotic music (the Beatles!) from far away places (England!). […]
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March 5, 2018
Kids and dogs like me
Every once and a while, researchers will announce a discovery that so dumbfounds you, you just want to smack your forehead and say: “Why didn’t I think to get a job that pays me big bucks to announce things that everyone already knew?” For example, one of the most recent dispatches from “The Department of […]
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Mortgaging Your Future
I once discussed the fun and exciting experience that is applying for a mortgage. For those of you who have survived that process and are now looking at the daunting experience of negotiating the terms, I present this handy mortgage glossary: Amortization Period: The time over which equal payments will pay off your mortgage — […]
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Keepin’ It Real
Recent advances in medicine have allowed us to do some pretty amazing things. For example, progress in drug development has allowed millions of people to lead healthy, normal lives interrupted only by the constant ads for Prozac via email, television, radio and magazines. Scanning technology in particular has revealed some very interesting things about the […]
Chandra Clarke - Award-winning entrepreneur. Author. Professional Optimist.
February 19, 2018
Odd Man Out
Today I discovered the real reason behind the invention of beer. For years, I thought beer was created because A) Ancient people needed some way to make use of grain that had gone off; B) Beer was sometimes safer to drink than the local water, which could make you feel ill and vomit. C) People […]
Chandra Clarke - Award-winning entrepreneur. Author. Professional Optimist.
February 5, 2018
If It Ain’t Broke, It Might Be Badly Designed
A recent study has shown that nearly half of all “malfunctioning” products returned to the store for a refund aren’t really broken. Buyers just can’t figure out how to use them. Are we getting dumber? Is technology outpacing us? No, mostly it’s the fault of bad design, and overly complicated products. As frequent readers of […]
Chandra Clarke - Award-winning entrepreneur. Author. Professional Optimist.
January 22, 2018
Know What?
This just in! A Kansas State researcher once discovered that if you compliment a woman about her appearance, she feels better about herself. Ooh! And in other news, another researcher (also at Kansas State) determined that familiar songs act as memory prompts; amazingly, hearing a song from days gone by reminds you of a specific […]
Chandra Clarke - Award-winning entrepreneur. Author. Professional Optimist.
