When I was growing up, I refused to eat broccoli. In fact, I refused to eat a lot of things.  During one phase, I refused to eat anything except cold hot dogs and cottage cheese.  If I was feeling extraordinarily flexible, I might consider a Libbyland TV Dinner. This led to no small amount of conflict in my house, usually culminating in the words every child has heard and every parent has uttered at least once:  “THERE ARE CHILDREN STARVING IN CHINA”  (or Africa, for those of you who are a little younger than me and don’t remember Libbyland dinners….) […]

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What would you do with 153 million? Of course, 153 million dollars is easy.  You could buy a Starbucks coffee every day for a year…for every person in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Or you could buy a couple of loaded Gulfstream jets. But what is 153 million, really? 153 million jelly beans?  They’d fill a pretty big swimming pool.  Or you could eat them.  Of course, you’d gain 180 thousand pounds.  Which is the weight of 938 people.  So maybe you couldn’t eat them. 153 million songs?  You’d be listening for a thousand years. 153 million words?  You’d have to read 1,500 […]

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