It seems this one time semi-comical viewpoint section is going to become a regular part of Styrofoamsoup. I recently entered a discussion regarding the benefits of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the city limits (specifically Buffalo in this conversation, though it is a big issue in all of the State of New York and other states [...]

As you may have notice from some recent articles I have recently purchased a fantastic art deco pocket watch. This article is only partially about that. Here we sit in 2010 with a timekeeper in our pockets.  The wristwatch while ever convenient is not a park of every person’s wardrobe (it usually is a part [...]

NPR is hardly a BP supporter… but look… wait… oil spills into the ocean in Exxon Valdez quantities every year… and look… wait… bacteria eat it… and look… wait… they’re eating this oil too… hmmm oil comes from the Earth and goes back to it… who would have thought… Nature 1 point… Humans zero… good [...]

Everyone knows the story of Black Tuesday (10/29/1929), the worst day in the history of the market*. What very few people know is about the best day in the history of the market, a day I like to call In the Black Wednesday. I understand the analogy, black is the color of darkness, but typically [...]

I recently stumbled across this video of a deranged woman attacking McDonalds for chicken nuggets.  I don’t know which is scarier, her or the reporter’s terrible looking spray on tan. Talk about spooky!