The Origins of 9 Charities Named After People
We often write their names on the “Pay to the Order of” lines of our donation checks, but how well do we know the inspiring people behind some of our favorite charities and foundations? A lot of charitable foundations are named after the celebrities or high-profile business tycoons who founded them, but others are named [...]
Cow Gets Double Prosthetic Legs
When Nancy Dickenson and her stepdaughter found an 11-month-old calf suffering from severe frostbite on their neighbor’s property, they knew they had to do something to help. When they realized the Black Angus heifer had lost the use of its back legs, they bought the cow from their neighbor and then brought it to Colorado [...]
22 Great Photos Found in Presidential Libraries
A few weeks ago, after stumbling across this photo of John Travolta and Princess Diana dancing at the White House, I sent our readers on a Presidential Library scavenger hunt. You found some fantastic photos—here are 22 of our favorites.
1. Gatorade Bath
After winning their first Super Bowl in early 1987, the Giants celebrated by dumping [...]
How To Make Health Care Affordable: Medical Tourism!
With all the debate going on with health care, you’d be forgiven if you want to skip this post. But I think I’ve found the solution to making health care affordable for Americans: just outsource it to Thailand.
Eric Wahlgren of AOL’s Daily Finance has the story of medical tourism:
Like some 47 million other Americans, Nancy [...]
Backlash Against Helicopter Parents
Like the proverb says, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and parenting is no excuse. Nancy Gibbs of TIME Magazine wrote a very interesting article about the growing backlash against “helicopter parents”:
The insanity crept up on us slowly; we just wanted what was best for our kids. We bought macrobiotic cupcakes and [...]
Craigslist by the Numbers: 10 You Need to Know
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Craigslist started as a tech mailing list in 1995, which quickly morphed into a place where tech recruiters posted job listings. Christina Murphy was a frequent job poster/head hunter on Craigslist.
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Murphy teemed up with Nancy Melone, an Internet consultant, and together they roped Newmark into starting a nonprofit called List Foundation in 1988. In fact, [...]
Calf Gets Prosthetic Legs
Nancy Dickenson of Ocate, New Mexico and her stepdaughter Martha found an 11-month-old calf on a neighbor’s ranch that was suffering from severe frostbite. The black angus heifer had lost the use of her back legs and hooves. What to do? Obviously, the answer is to give her prosthetic legs!
The Dickensons have rescued dozens of [...]
Winston Churchill Motivational Posters
The Art of Manliness blog has an excellent post turning the wits of Winston Churchill into stylish motivational posters.
I’d like to see Brett and Kate McKay of AoM Blog turn these favorite Churchill quotes of mine into a poster:
Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are drunk. Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I [...]
Dog washing machine
The owner selects the required wash cycle and dog size before washing her dog
When a dog comes home from a walk filthy and smelling of something unmentionable, the temptation sometimes is to throw the darn thing in the washing machine.
Well, now you can. An entrepreneur has come up with the Dog-O-Matic, a mini car-wash that [...]
Fun With Live Microphones
Much has been made in the press of President Obama’s off-the-cuff, off-the-record remark about Kanye West and his upstaging of Taylor Swift at the Video Music Awards ceremony. Even though Obama simply voiced what most viewers were thinking, there was a lot of media criticism/analysis after the fact as to whether his remark should’ve been [...]
