One of the great things about the Internet is that marketing claims don’t have to be defensible. For example, just google up the phrase, “world’s largest corn maze.” It is definitely right outside St. Cloud, Minnesota, at the Stoney Brook Farm. Says so right on the website. Their maze spreads…

Attention paraskevidekatriaphobiacs: it’s worse than you think… As I alluded to last week, the Gregorian calendar was first rolled out in 1582, and was fully adopted by Europe in 1752. In order to make the calendar align almost perfectly with the orbit of the earth around the sun, the Gregorian…

Welcome to the most conflicted holiday on the calendar. The trouble starts with the very name of the thing, to wit, there never was an explorer named Christopher Columbus. He may have been called Christoffa Corombo in his native Genoa, or Cristóvão Colombo in Portugal, or Cristóbal Colón by the Spanish.…