“O’Neill gives a skilled performance as a truly reprehensible human being, once you get over the dissonance of hearing Al Bundy/Jay Prichett’s voice yelling at Doc that he’s on a “choke chain.””

His 30 Days episode about outsourcing tech work to India was especially meaningful to me. I was working in tech just as my employer was moving into outsourcing. I burned it onto a DVD to share with my co-workers, who all found it really meaningful as well.

I grew up in the foothills of the Ozarks. This soup was on every families’ menu, especially in the winter. The tomatoes would be home-canned, from a quart Mason jar, and the other vegetables would come from the root cellar - where one stored their root vegetables (turnips, parsnips, beets, carrots, potatoes) for the…

“Chili’s, America’s Tex-Mex destination since 1975”

Or “The Founder,” about the founding of McDonald’s. (Great movie, by the way.)

He already had won a national title. 

My friends who were actually there reported it was more of an afternoon shoot, but the Dunkin’s where it was filmed is in a really high traffic area. It’s never really slow there. In fact, there are, I think, 2 other shops in less than a mile radius of the store where this was filmed. Medford is peak Dunkin’s country,…

King of the Hill visited my hometown, too.

Their mandarin orange flavor was next level.

I forgot that existed. I like Sprite but definitely think there’s room for a less sweet soda with real fruit juice.

Slice was the best of the 7-Up alternatives. It actually tasted like a real citrus fruit had at least been in the building when it was being bottled. I’ve never liked Sprite - it is, to me, the most “created in a lab” tasting of the lemon-lime crowd. 7-Up is the original and the “cleanest” tasting - I’m not sure…

The franchisee that owns 70 of the STL area JITBs filed bankruptcy a little over a year ago. They are likely trying to close some stores to restructure their debt. If they close too many, I’d imagine JITB will revoke their franchisee rights.