According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the producer price index has gone up 9.7% from what it was a year ago. The producer price index measures wholesale prices. For the consumer, prices have increased more than the wholesale price. Sometimes, a lot more. I was at Walmart and purchased two large bags of …
I bought the One Piece Kaido, King of The Beasts statue I wrote about the other day from the GameStop website on Monday, January 31, 2022. Not only have I not received it, GameStop hasn’t even shipped it yet. This wasn’t a pre-sale. I bought something that was in stock and ready to ship. When …
There’s a guy named Sondsol on Twitch who talks about political related things from a left perspective. I enjoy listening to him and agree with him on a lot of the things he says. I also follow him on Twitter. He tweeted something a couple of days ago that caused a lot of his fellow …
Tim Pool, one of YouTube’s most successful political pundits/propagandists, was swatted yesterday. To swat someone is to call 911 and falsely claim there is a dangerous incident taking place at the target’s location, and to ask for the police to come. Someone did that to Tim Pool yesterday while he was live on YouTube. We …
Companies that want to achieve a more diverse workforce may want to come up with a better method than just firing all the white guys and replacing them with women and racial minorities. From NBC News: David Duvall of Michigan sued Novant Health, Inc. in 2019 after he was fired as senior vice president of …
The Hugo Awards were last weekend. It’s the annual award show for science fiction and fantasy creative works. The award show took place at DisCon III, a science fiction convention held in Washington, D.C. One of the sponsors for the event was Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies located in Arlington, Virginia. …
Hasbro finally got around to making a Migs Mayfeld action figure. In case you don’t know, he’s a character from the the first and second season of The Mandalorian, played by stand-up comedy legend Bill Burr. I’m a huge fan of Bill Burr. Even though he’s one of the top stand-up comedians around, he has …
I received an email this morning from the MLB shop, a “Fanatics Experience.” That distinction means the email was actually from Fanatics. That’s because Fanatics paid MLB a lot of money to take over its e-commerce presence. Fanatics did a similar deal with the NFL, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, Lids, and a host of other entities …
After going to Hot Topic yesterday morning to try to buy a Funko Pop! 2021 Fall Convention Exclusive Punchline figure, I stopped by Target to see if they had anything worth picking up. They had three new Target exclusive Demon Slayer figures. I decided to buy them. They weren’t for me. They’re a Christmas present for …
If you live in the Hagerstown area of Maryland and need plumbing, heating, or air conditioning services, I highly recommend you avoid Larry & Sons. We paid Larry & Sons $1,839.00 to remove our existing water heater and replace it with a new one. Our existing water heater was bad. It was leaking water. The …