Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill
According to a STUDY ON TELEVISION VIEWING HABITS by A.C. Nielsen, by the time a child fnishes elementary school, they would have watched over 8,000 murders on TV. By the time they reach 18, that number grows to over 200,000 violent acts.
If it helps, the average American watches more than 4 hours of TV every day. If that person lives 65 years, they would have spent at least nine years – about 13% of their life – simply watching TV.
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The Kentucky Derby Museum Cookbook
Next week is the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.
And if you’re like Web Watch, you will be tuning in to watch the race with friends – holding a mint julep in one hand, and a racing form in the other… all while trying to see the race through the forest of giant Kentucky Derby hats worn by the ladies in the room.
But Kentucky isn’t know just for this long-running horse race.
No, Kentucky is also known for bourbon.
So if you’re going to host or attend a KENTUCKY DERBY PARTY on race day, you may want to make something bourbon-related. You know, just because.
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Animaniacs – featuring NATIONS OF THE WORLD
Web Watch presents LIFE MAGAZINE’s LIST OF IMPOSSIBLE TO PRONOUNCE COUNTRY NAMES.
How many of the following countries can you pronounce correctly?
After yesterday’s WEB WATCH post about the percentage of herpes infections in the US, we received a few questions about one of the CDC’s survey results that stated that more women than men suffered from herpes.
The question? “Why?”
While we know some men can be sleeping around with more than one partner, that certainly doesn’t mean that men are the sole means that the herpes virus can get spread around.
Leave it to more scientific studies to help Web Watch out when we need to know more about herpes in just a few days than we ever thought was reasonable.
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Web Watch was reading a CNN article the other day that shows how important it is to (a) have a good, gripping headline to draw a reader into a story; and (b) a phenomenal opening paragraph that lays out exactly what the story is about.
These are two rules that every aspiring news reporter should try to follow with every story that they file.
Case in point, the CNN article in question: THE DOWNSIDE OF “FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS”.
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Web Watch has eaten many fast-food cheeseburgers over the years.
We’ve been to the standards – McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King, Hardee’s – and have visited the occasional In-n-Out whenever possible.
But no matter how tasty and convenient for road trips the fast food burger can be, Web Watch will stand by our philosophy that nothing beats a good burger, done right at home.
Trent at The Simple Dollar agrees: he has done the analysis and concluded that IT IS CHEAPER TO BUY THE INGREDIENTS TO MAKE DOUBLE-CHEESEBURGERS AT HOME THAN IT IS TO BUY THEM FOR $1 AT McDONALD’S.
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Playboy has released their list of the 2010 TOP PARTY SCHOOLS FOR 2010:
Esquire’s A Man’s Guide to Life: The Rules
Esquire’s book, A MAN’S GUIDE TO LIFE is just like THE MODERN MAN’S GUIDE TO LIFE or Denis Boyle‘s A MAN’S LIFE: THE COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS – books filled with rules and helpful instructions to let any man prove that he is, in fact, A Man. Web Watch highly recommends offering any of these three books to graduating high school seniors (or even as bar mitzvah gifts, since that is when A Boy Becomes a Man).
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