Category Archives: RER Rundown

Restaurant Chains Cut Estimates for Health-Law Costs (via The Wall Street Journal)   Here is the story about the cost of healthcare for employers. It's all about "the why", folks. ...

Researchers create ultra-thin and flexible Harry Potter-like invisibility cloak (via Extreme Tech)   I only have one question? How much?… OK, two questions…. Can I get two of them?...

IRS’s Costly ‘Star Trek’ Training Video  (via Associated Press)   Talk about a waste of Taxpayer dollars! Here is the story and video of the IRS's Star Trek employees ...

Marriage and the Supreme Court (via Wall Street Journal)   As the Supreme Court hears arguments on Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act here are the legal issues, that are pretty well de...

Your car may be invading your privacy (via USA Today)   After reading this article, I started thinking…. I should probably make a statement just in case cars learn to talk after spying on t...

Spring snowstorm hits central states, pushes east (via Yahoo! News)   OK, this really is the "snow-pocalypse". It's the winter that never ends. I say we all pack out bags and move ...

Are babies born bullies? UBC study shows infants learn social stratification as early as nine months (via National Post)   I know I was a fussy baby and may have even fought over a toy or tw...

Man who wrestled shark away from kids fired for missing work (via Yahoo News)   This would be my luck. If I ever decided to play hooky and go to the beach, I would end up being in a video that go...

Physicists say they have found a Higgs boson (via myway)   This is the so called "God Particle."  We need to bring on a physicist because I really don't understand the concept...

Demand for chopsticks killing trees, Chinese lawmaker says (via The Times of India)   We have talked about environmentalism, global warming and deforestation but don't think we have ever cov...