Who hasn’t had the experience of watching television and seeing a commercial or infomercial for a product so ridiculous, so unbelievable, that it’s hard to imagine why anyone, anywhere,... Read more >>

I’m sitting on cold bleachers at a high school football game and here’s what I see: shivering sports fans struggling in vain to keep blankets around their shoulders; mothers trying to keep... Read more >>

Ah, the SkyMall catalog—the airplane standby that gets us through a flight when we have nothing else with which to distract ourselves. But does anyone actually buy from it? Based on the bizarre... Read more >>

During the bottomless pit of holiday downtime with its endless snacking, lack of routine, and overuse of the TV as a babysitter, my oldest daughter became hooked on several “as seen on TV”... Read more >>