Stories by Mad Dog
Questions about mad cow disease? The answers you seek are right here.
Posted on Jan 6, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Everyone reinvents themselves, from Madonna to President Bush and Hollywood superstars.
Posted on Apr 28, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Meeting women should be as easy as learning to sing, changing your name, or pretending to choke in a crowded restaurant.
Posted on Mar 13, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Thanks to the economy, cheaper is better, and people are proud of how cheap they can live.
Posted on Feb 28, 2003, Source: AlterNet
People are so useless after they die. We aspire to so much during life, why not do that after life.
Posted on Sep 9, 2002, Source: AlterNet
How does the military spend its money? By developing a new antitraction gel that's so slippery it's impossible to drive or walk on it. Should make for some hilarious CNN footage.
Posted on Sep 3, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Next year Russian TV stations must stop inserting subliminal messages into their programming, which could change life in the country. Like plummeting vodka sales.
Posted on Aug 19, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Before they can figure out what they want to be when they grow up, it's probably a good idea to check off some of the things they don't want to be: priests, accountants and CEOs.
Posted on Aug 12, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The USDA's 10-year-old food pyrmaid is changing to fit the most modern American diet, which lately includes a steady stream of Krispy Kremes, Slim Jims and soy lattes.
Posted on Jul 31, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Sure you can watch Judge Judy from an armchair, but there's more fun wondering what's underneath a judge's robe and getting $1.50 a day for gas mileage that's worth jury duty.
Posted on Jul 29, 2002, Source: AlterNet
More and more the general public's being inundated with ads at work, on Web sites, at the movies and geez, even on the beach. Where and when will it end?
Posted on Jul 22, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The average American spends 51 minutes a day commuting to work. That's 221 hours a year or 9.2 days to talk on our cell phones, listen to NPR and remove things from our noses.
Posted on Jul 11, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Unlike allergy sufferers, people in horror movies deserve what they get.
Posted on Jun 24, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The 75th annual National Spelling Bee was held recently and 13-year-old Pratyush Buddiga of Colorado Springs, CO won it by spelling his name correctly. Just kidding.
Posted on Jun 17, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Branding, for those who slept through Business Buzz Words 101, is the idea that if you have a name -- and who doesn’t? -- it’s important to make sure everyone knows it.
Posted on Jun 11, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Soon there will be a lot more women tearing up the highways in Lithuania. That is, of course, assuming the highways aren’t too torn up to drive on.
Posted on Jun 4, 2002, Source: AlterNet
NASA, the same wonderful people who brought us Tang and pens that write upside down, is sponsoring new research that will enable us to turn fish filets into whole fish. Weird.
Posted on May 23, 2002, Source: AlterNet
DNA is poised to be the baseball trading cards of the 21st century. Everyone wants to collect it.
Posted on May 7, 2002, Source: AlterNet
It’s spring, so our thoughts naturally turn to sex.
Posted on Apr 30, 2002, Source: AlterNet
A benefit show was recently held in Los Angeles to help raise money for the Exotic World Burlesque Museum in Helendale, CA.
Posted on Apr 23, 2002, Source: AlterNet
A French pharmaceutical company, trying to prove once again that the French do everything better, managed to lose 85 million doses of smallpox vaccine.
Posted on Apr 9, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The Todd M. Beamer Foundation has applied for a trademark on the phrase "Let's roll." What's next? George Bush trying to outlaw anyone else from using his name?
Posted on Apr 2, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Considering that you can get thousands of bucks for a healthy organ, our bodies are worth about $220,000 each. So why not sell off a kidney or lung -- after all, you've got another!
Posted on Mar 19, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The truth is, sleep deprivation isn't the real problem. What we should be concerned about is that, thanks to sleep, we're life deprived.
Posted on Mar 12, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Lance Bass, a singer for boy band 'N Sync, was preparing to hand over $22 million to visit space station Mir. Then Mir fall down, go boom. What's a Sync to do?
Posted on Mar 5, 2002, Source: AlterNet
If companies start arbitrarily changing the color of food we won't know what to eat, especially if we start wrapping it in the new food wrap the USDA has developed.
Posted on Feb 19, 2002, Source: AlterNet
I want Mariah Carey's job. True I can't sing like her, don't look as good when I bare my stomach, and can't shake my hips like her--hey, I'm a white male for Christ's sake!--but I can act better than she can.
Posted on Feb 12, 2002, Source: AlterNet
February 14th conjures up thoughts of romance, dreamy candlelight gazes, and "Is it 5:30 already? I sure hope the drug store still has a 25-lb. heart-shaped box of chocolates left!
Posted on Feb 5, 2002, Source: AlterNet
What if you could change things you've done without any dire consequences? Or even better, make a few more bucks because of it.
Posted on Jan 22, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Why doesn't America start bestowing knighthoods on people?
Posted on Jan 15, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The idea of the euro is to unite the countries economically and create some truly boring paper money adorned with generic, unidentifiable bridges and doorways.
Posted on Jan 4, 2002, Source: AlterNet
It's getting so you don't know who to believe anymore. In the good old days, defined as any group of years which now blur together, it was easy -- you believed your parents, your teachers, your Friends in Blue, and June Cleaver.
Posted on Dec 26, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Animal crackers are 100 years old. No, not the package that's sitting on your kitchen shelf, but rather the brand itself.
Posted on Dec 18, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Christmas is going to be different this year. It won't just be that the outside of every house will be decorated in red, white, and blue bulbs.
Posted on Dec 11, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Scientists have finally solved a mystery which has been vexing them for years. That's right, they've figured out what causes the Brazil Nut Effect.
Posted on Nov 29, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Office buildings aren't buying as many rolls of toilet paper as they used to, proof that businesspeople let their personal hygiene go to hell at the first sign of a crisis.
Posted on Nov 27, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Civic duty is making a comeback in the U.S. and abroad. Of course in other countries people are being asked to help their government in different ways.
Posted on Nov 20, 2001, Source: AlterNet
The Department of Defense is holding a contest for ideas about combating terrorism. Does "planting a homing device in bin Laden's beard" count?
Posted on Nov 6, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Watching the news lately has given me a case of information overload, which is pretty amazing considering they're hardly giving us any solid facts.
Posted on Oct 30, 2001, Source: AlterNet
No one knows exactly what date the first email was sent, though it's a safe bet it was an offer for a cable descrambler or a penis enlarger.
Posted on Oct 23, 2001, Source: AlterNet
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